Drive off
Drive off verb - Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.
Both terms in one sentence
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Subverted in that Janus has his men cease fire and drive off in the very next strip — apparently, he was satisfied with forcing the Inquisitors to dive for cover.
Source: Webcomic / Exterminatus Now -
Mary tells the guards to set a bunch of swords on fire so that they look like fire elemental weapons, so that they can drive off some frost giants.
Source: Flaming Sword - Fire Emblem Fates opens with a dream in which the Player Character, alongside their Hoshidan siblings, drive off Nohrian invaders.
Source: Action Prologue
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