drive

Speech parts

1. drive - Noun

2. drive - Verb

Meaning

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.

To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.

To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.

To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

To pass away; -- said of time.

To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.

To distrain for rent.

Driven.

The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

force push take thrust urge compel impel motivate power make energy pressure run cause move
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Antonyms

paseo rest cow retard laxness daunt
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Hypernyms

hale power control work make return

Hyponyms

war energy action tool fly coach

Phrases with the word

drive the point home drive home drive someone nuts drive someone up the wall drive up the wall drive mad

Derivatives

drove Drave driven driving

Anagrams

diver rived Verdi dveri

Examples

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Close letter words and terms

driue drivability drivable drive a bus drive a coach and horses through drive a coach and six through