shoo away

verb

to get rid of, to chase away

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shoo offshoo
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Meanings

verbshoo away (third-person singular simple present shoos away, present participle shooing away, simple past and past participle shooed away)

present singular third person shoos away · participle present shooing away · participle past shooed away · past shooed away

  1. transitiveto get rid of, to chase away

    ... They waved their arms as if trying to shoo away a bunch of children, but Kai ignored them, irritating as they were. To put it bluntly, the most convenient thing for Kai would be to let the idiots in black do the[…]

    2020 July 20, Tsukasa Tanimai, Teogonia: Volume 3, J-Novel Club, →ISBN

    Synonyms: shoo off, shoo

Synonyms & antonyms

verbto get rid of, to chase away

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shoo offshoo

More synonyms by meaning

verbdrive away by crying ‘shoo!’

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shoo offshoo
Broader
chase awaydrive outturn back
Also see
shooshoo off

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From shoo + away.

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APA

shoo away. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoo%20away

MLA

“shoo away.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoo%20away. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shoo away,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoo%20away.

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