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Chase away   /tʃeɪs əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Chase away

verb
1.
Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.  Synonyms: dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back.  "Drive away bad thoughts" , "Dispel doubts" , "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"






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"Chase away" Quotes from Famous Books



... was, that one bright day In the long week of rain! Though all its splendor could not chase away The omnipresent pain. ...
— Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... To chase away his gathering depression he thought that he would go in and have tea with Bobby and Alice. It was quite late when he got there, and stars were in a sky that was so delicate in colour that it seemed as though it were exhausted by the glorious ...
— Fortitude • Hugh Walpole

... or whence came the noise, but the terror it inspired was sufficient to chase away sleep from all. Everyone had been awakened, and the captain had at once gone to the watch, followed by Mark, after he had been to the end of the little tent and tried to give some comfort by telling its occupants that the ...
— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn

... the law. We have learnt toleration in Europe. This is not sarcastically said; for the Anti-Semitism of today could only in a very few places be taken for old religious intolerance. It is for the most part a movement among civilized nations by which they try to chase away the ...
— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl

... up the bed, and all the while kept looking out to see if, perchance, any boat were coming across the lake. A plentiful table was spread in the house, and there was always something wanting, or flies to chase away, and the bedroom was dusty,—continually dusty. Still no boat came. The mother leaned against the window and looked across the waters; then she heard a step near at hand on the road, and turned her head. It was the school- master, ...
— A Happy Boy • Bjornstjerne Bjornson


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