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CHASE AWAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chase away mean?
• CHASE AWAY (verb)
The verb CHASE AWAY has 1 sense:
1. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
Familiarity information: CHASE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back
Context example:
The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
Hypernyms (to "chase away" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Verb group:
drive out; force out; rouse; rout out (force or drive out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chase away"):
fire (drive out or away by or as if by fire)
clear the air (dispel differences or negative emotions)
banish (drive away)
shoo; shoo away; shoo off (drive away by crying 'shoo!')
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Context examples
And could not such words from her whom I fondly prized before every other gift of fortune suffice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for contentment.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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