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单词 to drive off time
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to drive off time
1. transitive. To defer or postpone (something); to make (a person) wait, esp. by wasting time; to put off. Also in to drive off time: to procrastinate. Also (and in earliest use) intransitive. Obsolete.Cf. main sense 31.
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the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)]
overdoOE
adreeOE
wreaka1300
to draw forthc1300
dispend1340
pass1340
drivea1375
wastec1381
occupyc1384
overpassa1387
to pass over ——a1393
usec1400
spend1423
contrive?a1475
overdrive1487
consumea1500
to pass forth1509
to drive off1517
lead1523
to ride out1529
to wear out, forth1530
to pass away?1550
to put offc1550
shiftc1562
to tire out1563
wear1567
to drive out1570
entertainc1570
expire1589
tire1589
outwear1590
to see out1590
outrun1592
outgo1595
overshoot1597
to pass out1603
fleeta1616
elapse1654
term1654
trickle1657
to put over1679
absorb1686
spin1696
exercise1711
kill1728
to get through ——1748
to get over ——1751
tickc1870
fill1875
1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xvi. 66 Dryue of no lenger, but tell me your mynde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 529/2 I drive of a thynge, I dyffar it, je differre.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1593) 1016 The bad Lawyer driues off his Client from terme to terme, till the suite be lost.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 121 Too long have we driven off the applying of our redress.
1695 tr. Duc de Richelieu Compleat Statesman ii. iv. 13 It is a common thing among weak Men to drive off time, and to chuse the preserving of their Ease for a Month rather than to deprive themselves of it for a while.
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