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The Brazilian word

afugentar

means
to scare away
Examples:
Tom afugentou os gatos.
Tom chased the cats away.
O cão afugentou as crianças.
The dog frightened the children away.
Tom tentou afugentar os lobos.
Tom tried to scare the wolves away.
Examples sourced from tatoeba.org