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third-person singular simple present drives away, present participle driving away, simple past drove away, past participle driven away
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, away. examples
(idiomatic) To force someone or something to leave quotations examples
Sébastien Bassong is being driven away by the "madness" at Newcastle United, a source close to the Frenchman has told the local Evening Chronicle newspaper.
2009 June 10, Football, The Guardian
We would like to believe in the enchanting influence of Gandhigiri as the single absolute force that drove away the whites who probably went muttering, 'bloody Indians', an expression that was enthusiastically attributed to Englishmen by innumerable Hindi films.
2011, Manu Joseph, “Bullshit as a Cultural Space”, in Urban Voice 4: New Indian Writing, Leadstart Publishing, page 108