Drive

/dɹaɪv/ · verb

Meaning

To operate a vehicle:.

Definitions by Sense

1. To operate a vehicle:
2. To compel to move:
3. To cause to move by the application of physical force:
4. (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
5. To compel to undergo a non-physical change:
6. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
7. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
8. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

Example Sentences

One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

[…] Unequal match’d, Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;

Thus while the Pious Prince his Fate bewails, Fierce Boreas drove against his flying Sails. And rent the Sheets […]

Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb.

Charles, ill in body and mind, and glad to escape from his enemies under cover of the night and a driving tempest, was at length compelled to sign the treaty of Passau […]

It would seem they were regarding this new antagonist with astonishment. To their intelligence, it may be, the giant was even such another as themselves. The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply drove full speed towards them. It was probably her not firing that enabled her to get so near the enemy as she did. They did not know what to make of her. One shell, and they would have sent her to the bottom forthwith with the Heat-Ray.

The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.

[…] as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor ship drives:

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Word Forms

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• driving
• drove
• drave
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• drivest
• drovest
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• Dr.

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