"drive off" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-drive off.ogg [Australia] Forms: drive offs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drive off (plural drive offs)
  1. Alternative spelling of drive-off Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: drive-off
    Sense id: en-drive_off-en-noun-yTa~P6i8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 18 16 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 66 12 22

Verb

Audio: en-au-drive off.ogg [Australia] Forms: drives off [present, singular, third-person], driving off [participle, present], drove off [past], driven off [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|drive<,,drove,driven> off}} drive off (third-person singular simple present drives off, present participle driving off, simple past drove off, past participle driven off)
  1. (idiomatic) To force to leave or go away. Tags: idiomatic Translations (force to leave or go away): verjagen (Dutch), ajaa pois (Finnish), ajaa tiehensä (Finnish), häätää (Finnish), chasser (French), déloger (French), espantar (Galician), austreiben (German), abigō (Latin), отва́живать (otváživatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отва́дить (otváditʹ) [perfective] (Russian), इङ्गति (iṅgati) (Sanskrit), kufukuza (Swahili), kovmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-drive_off-en-verb-~Z9v7910 Disambiguation of 'force to leave or go away': 100 0
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, off.
    Sense id: en-drive_off-en-verb-iXWcfDq0

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for drive off meaning in English (4.1kB)

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        "(idiomatic) To force to leave or go away."
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "force to leave or go away",
          "word": "verjagen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "sense": "force to leave or go away",
          "word": "chasser"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "force to leave or go away",
          "word": "déloger"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "force to leave or go away",
          "word": "espantar"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "force to leave or go away",
          "word": "austreiben"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "la",
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          "sense": "force to leave or go away",
          "word": "abigō"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "force to leave or go away",
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          "text": "We started the car and drove off."
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      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "verjagen"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "ajaa pois"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "ajaa tiehensä"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "häätää"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "chasser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "déloger"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "espantar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "austreiben"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "abigō"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otváživatʹ",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "отва́живать"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "отва́дить"
    },
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      "code": "sa",
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      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
      "word": "इङ्गति"
    },
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      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
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    },
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "force to leave or go away",
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