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Adjective: driven drivun- Compelled forcibly by an outside agency
- goaded - Urged or forced to action through moral pressure
- impelled - Strongly motivated to succeed
- compulsive, determined Verb: drive (drove,driven) drIv- Operate or control a vehicle
"drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?" - Travel or be transported in a vehicle
"We drove to the university every morning" - motor - Cause someone or something to move by driving
"She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage" - Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
"He drives me mad" - force, ram - To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- Cause to move back by force or influence
- repel, repulse, force back, push back, beat back - Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
"She finally drove him to change jobs" - Push, propel, or press with force
"Drive a nail into the wall" - Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
"drive the ball far out into the field" - Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
"She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" - tug, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], push - Move into a desired direction of discourse
"What are you driving at?" - get, aim - Have certain properties when driven
"My new truck drives well" - ride - Work as a driver
"He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark" - Move by being propelled by a force
"The car drove around the corner" - Urge forward
"drive the cows into the barn" - Proceed along in a vehicle
"We drive the turnpike to work" - take - Strike with a driver, as in teeing off
"drive a golf ball" - Hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
"drive a ball" - Excavate horizontally
"drive a tunnel" - Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
"The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer" - Hunting: search for game
"drive the forest" - Hunting: chase from cover into more open ground
"drive the game"
See also: ambitious, aspirational, drift, drive in, drive out, driver, driving, involuntary, motivated, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary Type of: coerce, control, cover, cross, cut across, cut through, dig, displace, do work, excavate, fight, force, get across, get over, go, hale [archaic], hit, hollow, hunt, hunt down, impel, intend, locomote, make, mean, move, operate, pass over, power, pressure, propel, push, run, squeeze, struggle, throw, thrust, track, track down, travel, traverse, work Encyclopedia: Drive Drive, He Said Driven |