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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 meaningsplay

  Familiarity information: CHASE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHASE AWAY (verb)


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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