The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word REPEL , but the solution may also be CHASE OFF which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Drive away crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REPEL | 43 % | 5 |
| SHOO | 30 % | 4 |
| DISPEL | 8 % | 6 |
| ALIENATE | 8 % | 8 |
| BANISH | 3 % | 6 |
| CHASE | 3 % | 5 |
| RID | 1 % | 3 |
| REPULSE | 1 % | 7 |
| CHASE OFF | 1 % | 9 |
| BEATBACK | 1 % | 8 |
| EXILE | 1 % | 5 |
| TURNBACK | 1 % | 8 |
Why may CHASE-OFF be the right solution?
"Drive away" is a phrase that means to force someone or something to leave a place. "Chase off" is a synonym for this phrase, as it means to pursue and force someone or something to leave.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Drive away
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- chase away
- drive out
- run off
- drive off
- dispel
- turn back
- drive home
- walk away
- drive at
- send away
- blow away
- tear away
Crossword Answer definitions
REPEL verb- To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
- To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
- To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
- To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
- To force away by means of a repulsive force.
- To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.
- To save (a shot).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result REPEL
More clues leading to the result SHOO
- "Get lost!"
- "Vamoose!"
- Chase
- Frighten away
- "Scat!"
- Fly away!
- "Begone!"
- Chase (away)
- Chasing-away word
- "Amscray!"
More clues leading to the result DISPEL
- Drive off
- Cause to vanish
- Drive away
- Cause to vanish, as a rumor
- Put to rest
- Put to rest, as rumors
- Scatter
- Drive off, as rumors
- Put to rest, as a rumor
- Disperse.
More clues leading to the result ALIENATE
- Estrange
- Make hostile
- Drive off, as fans
- Keep at a distance
- Turn off, in a big way
- Distance
- Push away
- Turn into an extraterrestrial?
- Cause hostility in
- Drive away
More clues leading to the result BANISH
- Expel
- Send packing
- Exile
- Officially expel
- Cast out
- Keep out
- Send to Elba
- Forcibly exile
- Send into exile
- Send away
More clues leading to the result CHASE
- Run after
- Chevy of comedy
- Pursue
- Salmon in Lincoln's cabinet
- Lincoln treasury secretary
- Many a scene in the Bourne trilogy
- Early SNL comic
- Action sequence
- Early SNL star
- Cat-and-mouse action
More clues leading to the result RID
More clues leading to the result REPULSE
- Drive back
- Really offend
- Ward off
- More than turn off
- Force back, as an army
- Turn off
- Disgust
- Beat back
- Drive back, as an enemy
- Turn back
More clues leading to the result CHASE OFF
More clues leading to the result BEATBACK
More clues leading to the result EXILE
- Banish
- Expatriate
- Ostracize
- Banishment
- Elba, to Napoleon
- Member of the diaspora
- Deposed leader's fate
- Send to Siberia
- "___ in Guyville" (Classic Liz Phair album)
- Philip Nolan's fate