drive out

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drive out

verb drives out · driving out · drove out · driven out

idiomatic To push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere. In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.
Similar: flush, expel
obsolete, of type To set closely; to take up less space because the typesetter uses type that is thinner than the copy or the typesetter whites out more or squeezes in more lines on each page.
Similar: get in
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, out. At 11.20 pm, a co-worker watched Brianna walk to her car alone and drive out of the parking lot.

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verb to force someone out of somewhere

Français	éconduire
Deutsch	austreiben
Русский	изгонять izgonjatʹ, вытеснять vytesnjatʹ
العربية	طَرَدَ ṭarada

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@misc{drive_out_2026,
  title = {drive out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drive%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}