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Verb: drive off
  1. Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
    "The shopkeeper drove off the loiterers";
    - chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, run off

Derived forms: driving off, drives off, driven off, drove off

Type of: displace, move