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drive out vs shoo

shoo vs drive out

drive out and shoo both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
drive out No No Yes No
shoo No No Yes No
As verbs, shoo is a hyponym of drive out; that is, shoo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than drive out:
  • drive out: force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
  • shoo: drive away by crying `shoo!'
Other hyponyms of drive out include fire, clear the air, banish, shoo away, shoo off.
drive out (verb) shoo (verb)
clear out the chest and lungs drive away by crying `shoo!'
force or drive out
force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
Difference between drive out and shoo

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