From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdrive somebody ↔ away phrasal verbFORCE somebody TO DO somethingto behave in a way that makes someone leave He was cruel because he wanted to drive me away. → drive→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
drive away• Only the sun can drive them away.• The Defence Ministry claims that the range would benefit wildlife as it would drive people away.• Then, hardly knowing what she was doing, she drove wildly away.• Sometimes he turned, determined to drive the ghost away, but his blood ran cold with terror.• Odysseus was determined to drive the suitors away by force, but how could two men take on a whole company?• If this is done in hardness of spirit, it tends to harden attitudes and drive people away for the Lord.• The price deflator measures the size of price increases, and detects whether higher costs drive consumers away from a product.• We continued our drive, away from the golf course and to-ward the sea. 