to shoo away

  • 21shoo — [ʃuː] verb [T] to tell an animal or a person to go away, especially by saying ‘shoo and waving your hands shoo interjection …

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  • 22shoo — exclamation used to frighten or drive away a person or animal. verb (shoos, shooing, shooed) cause to go away by waving one s arms and saying ‘shoo’ …

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  • 23shoo — ʃuː v. drive away, send away, tell a person or animal to go away interj. go away!, get out! (used to drive away a person or animal) …

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  • 24shoo — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. chase, disperse, scatter, dispel. interj. scat! get away! get out! go away! scram! beat it! blow! (sl.) See departure. II (Roget s IV) interj. Syn. get away, begone, leave, scat; see get out . III… …

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  • 25shoo — Mawdesley Glossary 1.to shovel. 2.to drive birds away …

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  • 26drive away — verb force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings (Freq. 1) Drive away potential burglars drive away bad thoughts dispel doubts The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers • Syn: ↑chase away, ↑ …

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  • 27chase away — verb force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings Drive away potential burglars drive away bad thoughts dispel doubts The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers • Syn: ↑drive out, ↑turn back, ↑ …

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  • 28throw away — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abjure, blow, blunder away, boot out, bounce, brush aside, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, chuck, chuck out, consume, contemn, contradict, declaim, decline, deep six, defenestrate,… …

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  • 29do away with — Synonyms and related words: abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, bereave of life, cancel, carry away, carry off, cast off, chloroform, countermand, counterorder, cut down, cut off, cut short, deprive of life, destroy, disannul, dispatch, dispel …

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  • 30drive out — verb 1. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings (Freq. 1) Drive away potential burglars drive away bad thoughts dispel doubts The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers • Syn: ↑chase away, ↑ …

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