Drive Off

Definition: Drive Off

Drive Off

Verb

1. Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars'; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Drive Off

Crosswords: Drive Off

You hop in any car you want & just drive off. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

You hop in any car you want & just drive off. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

Drive off in a def OJ ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

Gonna get some spank n' drive off in a def OJ. Everybody go ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

I'm gonna get a fly girl, gonna get some spank, drive off in a def OJ, ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

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High Tech

• Test Drive Off Road: Wide Open (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Critical moments. What you expect the first time you happen to drive off in the presence of an audience. Credit: Library of Congress.

Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. Farmer: "Every dime I got is tied up right here. If I don't get it out, I've got to drive off and leave it. Where would I go and what would I do? I know what the land did once for me, m. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Botswana

The U.S. Embassy is on Embassy Drive off Khama Crescent--P. (references)

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Afrikaans

afry (drive, drive away). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тръгвам (depart, get along, get going, get off, leave, pull away, pull off, put, put forth, sally, set forth, set off, set on, set out, shove off, start, wend, wend one's way), отпъждам (frighten away), потеглям (pull off, set forth, set off, start, start off). (various references)

Chinese 

�' (arrange, expel). (various references)

Czech

odjet (depart, drive away, drop off, leave, run down). (various references)

Danish

afrejse (absent onself, depart, departure, drive away, go away, leave). (various references)

Dutch

wegrýden (drive away), vertrekken (absent onself, contort, depart, drive away, fly away, go away, leave, quarters, start off, twist), uitvaren (be infuriated, drive away), uitlopen (come to an end, drive away, end, end up, exit, expire, go out), afrýden (drive away). (various references)

Esperanto

forveturi (drive away). (various references)

German

wegtreiben (carry away, carry off, drift away, drive away, float away, float off), vertreiben (banish, chase away, chase off, dislodge, dispel, dispelled, distributes, drive away, drive out, expel, fend off, hound out, move, oust, repel, repulse, sell, to banish, to dislodge, to dispel, to drive away), abreisen (absent onself, check out, depart, drive away, go away, leave, to depart), abfahren (cruise, depart, drive away, go, leave, move off, pull out, roll, ski down, steam off, to depart, wear, wear down). (various references)

Greek 

φεύγω (buzz off, clear away, clear off, clear out, come away, drive away, flee, fleet, fly, get away, go away, go off, leave, pull out, run along, scurry, slope off, take oneself off, wear off), διώχνω (dismiss, dissipate, drive away, drive out, turn out). (various references)

Hungarian

elhajt (drive away, to drive away, to drive off, tool along). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� ��"矢 (arrow used to drive off evil), � ��"�" (bow used to drive off evil, toy bow and arrow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はまゆみ (bow used to drive off evil, toy bow and arrow), はまや (arrow used to drive off evil). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivedray offay

Polish

wyjechać. (various references)

Portuguese

afugentar (chase, chase away, drive away, earth, expel). (various references)

Russian 

отвадить (break of the habit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oterati (drive away, repudiate, send away), odvesti (drive away, drop off, lead, march, take, take away). (various references)

Spanish

salir (absent onself, break, break out, come off, come out, come up, depart, departing, drive away, emancipate, emerge, exit, get away, get out, get over, go, go away, go off, go on, go out, issue, lead off, leak, leave, leaving, line out, lurch out, march out, pan out, pass out, Pierce, pop out, protrude, pull out, push through, put off, put out, radiate, rise, sail, sail out, set forth, set forward, set out, shoot out, shoot up, stand out, start off, step out, stick out, take away, take off, take out, throw off, to leave, troop, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn up, walk out, wash off), quitarse de encima (drive away, get off, shift, throw off), partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, chop, cleave, come off, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, dole out, drive away, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, split up, start off, start out, tear, tear up, throw over, walk away), marcharse (clear out, come away, come off, depart, drive away, get off, go, go along, go away, go down, go off, leak away, leak out, leave, quit, take away, tear down, throw down, throw over, toddle, troop, trot, trot along, trot away, trot off), irse de (die off, draw away, march off, quit), arrancar y partir (drive away), alejar (alienate, avert, banish, keep away, keep off, move away, put off, remove, take away), ahuyentar (banish, chase, drive away, put to flight). (various references)

Ukrainian

відриватися. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: devoir, differ, doffer, fervid, riffed, voider.

-3 letters: diver, drive, drove, fifed, fifer, fiord, fired, fiver, fried, offed, offer, rived, roved, video, vireo.

-4 letters: defi, dire, dive, doer, doff, dore, dove, feod, fido, fief, fife, fire, five, ford, fore, froe, ired, over, redo, reif, ride, rife, riff, rive, rode, rove, vide, vied, vier, void.

+5 letters: overfulfilled.

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