drove away
Made them leave
Drove away is the past tense of drive away, meaning to leave a place in a vehicle or to cause someone or something to leave.
When you drove away from the parking lot, you departed in your car; when your behavior drove away customers, it caused them to leave or stay away.
She drove away without looking back.
The scandal drove away investors.
The phrase captures both literal vehicular departure and figurative repulsion or dispersal.
- departedHaving left
- hit the roadBegin one's journey
- took offDeparted or surged
- exitedWent out from
- evacuatedWithdrew from danger
dispersed · retreated · fled · ran off · estranged · repelled · scattered · scared off · left · made tracks · alienated · shut out · fended off · shunned · spurned · removed · banished · kicked out