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chase

 
/tʃeɪs/ v [T] (MAKE LEAVE)

Definition

to act in a threatening way in order to make a person or animal leave: She’s always chasing rabbits out of her garden, but they keep coming back.
(Definition of chase v (MAKE LEAVE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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