drive out
verb1
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:
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Media, Printing, Publishing Obsolete, Of type 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.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, out.