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ajaa tiehensä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • banish verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
  • shoo verb To wave or gesture at a person or animal to make them go away.

Senses

ajaa tiehensä is used for these senses in English:

  • banish (transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
  • drive off (idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
  • drive out (idiomatic) To push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere.
  • shoo (transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave.

banish — full definition

  1. verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
  2. verb To drive an unwanted thought or feeling from one's mind.

shoo — full definition

  1. verb To wave or gesture at a person or animal to make them go away.
  2. intj Used to tell an animal or person to go away.

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