From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdrive somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb1 FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto force someone or something to leave Downtown stores are being driven out by crime.2 written to make something stop existing As we went forward, our fear was driven out by horror. → drive→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
drive out• S. ambassador to the country that drove him out 40 years earlier.• Finally a bee drove the goats out.• It scores especially because most people most of the time don't drive flat out.• One of the friends, Manuel Cabrera, said he tried to grab Jamie but the intense heat drove him out.• He'd offered to pick her up and drive her out here.• Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running.• He was helped by Athena to drive them out of their coverts, and as they flew up he shot them.• We drove way out past Reno, to the old Fielding place. 