drive out

Verb

drive out (third-person singular simple present drives out, present participle driving out, simple past drove out, past participle driven out)

1. (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.1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167

   Synonyms:

   flush, expel

2. (obsolete) 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.

   Synonyms:

   get in

3. 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.2026 July 16, Nicholas Muhoro, “Inside the 2004 Brianna Maitland Case: One of Vermont’s Most Haunting Mysteries”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026