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drive off (third-person singular simple present drives off, present participle driving off, simple past drove off, past participle driven off)
- (idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, off.
We started the car and drove off.
force to leave or go away
- Dutch: verjagen (nl)
- Finnish: ajaa pois, ajaa tiehensä, häätää (fi)
- French: chasser (fr), déloger (fr)
- Galician: espantar (gl)
- German: austreiben (de)
- Latin: abigō (la)
- Polish: przeganiać impf, przegonić pf, przepędzać impf, przepędzić (pl) pf
- Russian: отва́живать (ru) impf (otváživatʹ), отва́дить (ru) pf (otváditʹ)
- Sanskrit: इङ्गति (sa) (iṅgati)
- Swahili: kufukuza (sw)
- Turkish: kovmak (tr)
drive off (plural drive offs)
- Alternative spelling of drive-off.