drive out

Questions about drive out

What does drive out mean?

drive out means "force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for drive out?

Close synonyms include chase away, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off. 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 out a common word?

drive out is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.