🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

驱逐

Pronunciation / Transliteration: qūzhú

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dislodge/dɪsˈlɒdʒ/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"强烈的风暴试图将屋顶的瓦片驱逐松动。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To knock or force out of a position previously occupied, especially one that is secure or fixed.

    "The heavy storm threatened to dislodge several roof tiles."
  2. 2

    To remove someone from a position of power, authority, or status.

    "The upstart challenger hopes to dislodge the reigning champion."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French dislogier, combining the prefix dis- (expressing removal or reversal) and logier (to lodge or dwell). Entering Middle English in the 14th century, the verb originally meant to force someone out of an encampment or lodging before broadening to mean the removal of any firmly fixed object.

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