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Drive
DRIVE, v.t. pret. Drove, [formerly drave; pp. Driven, G.]
1. To impel or urge forward by force; to force; to move by physical force. We drive a nail into wood with a hammer; the wind or a current drive a ship on the ocean.
2. To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will; as, to drive cattle to market. A smoke drives company from the room. A man may be drive by the necessities of the times, to abandon his country.
Drive thy business; let not thy business drive thee.
3. To chase; to hunt.
To drive the deer with hound and horn.
4. To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course; hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them. We say, to drive a team, or to drive a carriage drawn by a team.
5. To impel to greater speed.
6. To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.
To drive the country, force the swains away.
7. To force; to compel; in a general sense.
8. To hurry on inconsiderately; often with on. In this sense it is more generally intransitive.
9. To distress; to straighten; as desperate men far driven.
10. To impel by influence of passion. Anger and lust often drive men into gross crimes.
11. To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.
12. To impel by moral influence; to compel; as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error.
13. To carry on; to prosecute; to keep in motion; as, to drive a trade; to drive business.
14. To make light by motion or agitation; as, to drive feathers.
His thrice driven bed of down.
The sense is probably to beat; but I do not recollect this application of the word in America.
To drive away, to force to remove to a distance; to expel; to dispel; to scatter.
To drive off, to compel to remove from a place; to expel; to drive to a distance.
To drive out, to expel.
DRIVE, v.i.
1. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; as, a ship drives before the wind.
2. To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.
Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
3. To pass in a carriage; as, he drove to London. This phrase is elliptical. He drove his horses or carriage to London.
4. To aim at or tend to; to urge towards a point; to make an effort to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the author is driving at.
5. To aim a blow; to strike at with force.
Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.
Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is opposed to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or forward of the body.
DRIVE, n. Passage in a carriage.
drive appears in definitions for these words:
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Abactor Act Adrift Affair Agitator Ambages Apagogy Apocrustic Appeal Approach Appulse Articulation Ashore Attack Authentic Backwards Ball Bandy Banish Banished Bar Basilisk Battle Bayonet Bear Beat Beet-rave Bid Billiards Blow Blow-pipe Blown Bomb Bootlessly Brad Brawl Breastplow Calk Call Carman Carry Carter Cast Cause Certainty Chaff Chariot-man Chariot-race Charioteer Chase Chased Chaser Chide Clap Clash Clinch Cloy Coach-box Coachman Cog Colcothar Compact Compel Compellable Compress Compressible Conciliate Conflict Conjure Conquest Constrain Contemn Counterbuff Cram Crowded Crown-wheel Crowth Cut Dashed Defend Demise Depulsion Dethrone Disbench Discuss Dishabit Dislodge Dislodged Dispel Dispelled Disperse Dispersed Displant Dissipate Drabble Drave Drift Drift-wind Drifted Drive Drivel Driven Driver Drone Drove Drover Eject Elastic Elbow Embolus Emboss Enforce Enforced Epact Essay Exact Exigence Exile Exorcise Expel Expellable Expelled Expeller Experience Explode Exploded Explore Expulse Expulsion Exterminate Exterminated Extrude Extruded Eyebolt Fail Fall Fan-light Far Fast Fear Febrifuge Ferret Ferreted Fill Fire Flash Fling Float-board Flume Flutter Fly Flyflap Football Force Forced Forceful Forcer Forefend Fortune Fraise Frantic Frostnail Fume Goad Golf Hackney-coachman Hasted Heart-struck Herd Hole Home Hoop Hoot House Hull Hunt Hurl Hurry Hydragogue Impact Impacted Impel Impelled Impellent Impetus Inch Inculcate Inhibit Interpellation Jee Job Jowter Just Justle Knock Lead Let Mantlet Many Mediocrity Melanagogue Menagogue Militia Millrace Moment Nail Nepenthe Oppilate Outcast Overblown Overdrive Pallmall Pare Parried Peal Pelt Pelted Pelting Penguin Peristaltic Phlegm Pile Pillar Pistillation Piston Plowboy Plunge Pond Port-fire Press Prodigal Prodigy Profit Profligate Projectile Propel Propelled Propulse Protrude Ptsymagogue Puff Puffed Puke Pulmonary Pulsate Pulse Pulverable Push Pushed Pusher Put Rage Raging Rain Ram Rammed Rammer Rattle Read Rebound Recoil Recusant Redound Refuse Refute Renitence Repeat Repel Repelled Repellency Repellent Repercussive Reprobate Repulse Repulsed Repulser Reservoir Resign Restif Retreat Retropulsive Reverberate Reverberated Revert Rhetoric Rid Ride Rivet Roll Rouse Row Rowed Run Rush Sagittal Sail Sake Sand Scare Scatter Scowl Scratch Screen Scud Scudding Sea-room Sedition Seek Send Serr Shake Shoot Shove Slabber Slabbering Slaver Slavered Slaverer Slice Slot Smite Snow-drift Spanker Spar Speed Spell Spile Spire Spirit Spit Split Spoom Sport Sportive Spray Spur Spurn Spurt Squir Squirt Staple Stool-ball Strand Strive Sweep Sweinmote Swing-wheel Synagogue Tamping Teamster Tempest Tempest-tost Tennis Testaceology Thine Throb Throw Thrust Thunder-storm Tiddle Transact Trap Trappous Triumphantly Troll Turn Undriven Unearthed Unharbor Unhouse Unhoused Unkennel Unkenneled Unroosted Urge Vagabond Vehemence Venery Venom Violent Voice Walk War Water-sail Water-spout Wave Way Weather-driven Wedge Whip Whoop Wind Wind-rode Winnow Wish Wool-driver Wreak Wreck Wrought
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