Drive

Quick meaning: Drive is a verb meaning To operate a vehicle:.

Meaning

To operate a vehicle:.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• drives
• driving
• driv
• driven
• drivest
• driveth

Synonyms for drive

Depending on context, synonyms include onrush, plough, continue, carry on, pursue, empty.

Antonyms for drive

Common opposites include inertia, laziness, phlegm, sloth, pull, pull in.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include force, effort, labour, get, push, cause.

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