VERB
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force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
drive away bad thoughts
The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
dispel doubts
Drive away potential burglars
How To Use chase away In A Sentence
- The rise in industrial production helped chase away lingering fears that the economy is slipping into a new recession.
- This will chase away the blues!
- The fish clean the anemone's upper surface, remove parasites, drop food on the anemone, and chase away butterflyfishes that eat anemones.
- The noise is considered necessary to chase away the evil spirits of the old year.
- You managed to chase away your most loyal viewer.
- The flame from the tiny morsel is enough to kick-start the rest of my sluggish system, and when the annual flu strikes me down (as it always does!) a good dose of it chopped into a cup of green tea helps chase away the edge of nausea. Archive 2009-09-01
- Though it takes some patience to get used to the canned instrumentals, the sensitive production threaded with handclaps and sugary, multi-tracked harmonies quickly chase away any lingering skepticism.
- One-to-one sessions are being offered to help people chase away computer gremlins throughout the week.
- Some working dogs will even chase away wild animal.
- Ellery's return will help to chase away some of the gloom.
