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chasser — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • buffalo verb To intimidate, confuse, or trick someone, often to pressure them into doing something.
  • chase verb To run after someone or something in order to catch them.
  • dispel verb To make fears, doubts, or false ideas disappear by showing they have no basis.
  • drive verb To operate and steer a motor vehicle.
  • hunt verb To chase and kill wild animals for food or sport.
  • turtle noun A reptile with a hard protective shell that lives on land, in fresh water, or in the sea.

Senses

chasser is used for these senses in English:

  • buffalo (transitive) To hunt buffalo.
  • chase (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
  • dispel (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
  • drive (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
  • drive off (idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
  • hunt (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  • hunt (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
  • turtle (intransitive) To hunt turtles, especially in the water.

buffalo — full definition

  1. verb To intimidate, confuse, or trick someone, often to pressure them into doing something.
  2. verb To hunt buffalo.

chase — full definition

  1. verb To run after someone or something in order to catch them.
  2. verb To pursue a goal, opportunity, or ambition persistently.
  3. noun An act of pursuing someone or something, especially at speed.
  4. verb To drink something mild right after a strong alcoholic drink.

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