drive off

Questions about drive off

What does drive off mean?

drive off means "force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings".

What is another word for drive off?

Close synonyms include chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drive off a common word?

drive off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.