verb (used with or without object), droved, drov·ing.
Origin of drove2
Synonyms for drove
verb (used with object), drove or (Archaic) drave, driv·en, driv·ing.
- to cause the advance of (a base runner) by a base hit or sacrifice fly: He drove him home with a scratch single.
- to cause (a run) to be scored by a base hit or sacrifice fly: He drove in two runs.
- to hit or propel (a ball, puck, shuttlecock, etc.) very hard.
- to kick (a ball) with much force.
- to chase (game).
- to search (a district) for game.
verb (used without object), drove or (Archaic) drave, driv·en, driv·ing.
- an act or instance of driving a ball, puck, shuttlecock, or the like.
- the flight of such a ball, puck, shuttlecock, or the like, that has been driven with much force.
Origin of drive
Synonyms for drive
Related Words for drovethrong, horde, run, crowd, rout, drive, collection, herd, crush, swarm, press, mob, flock, company, multitude, pack
Examples from the Web for drove
Contemporary Examples of drove
As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.
So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.
We drove back down the hill, and the driver let me out near the Prado.The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind
December 19, 2014
Then the two hopped in a car and “drove around Chicago like lunatics,” Wald remembered.How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America
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December 10, 2014
I ordered two chicken dinners and drove back around the lot to where the kid was sitting.The Stacks: A Chicken Dinner That Mends Your Heart
December 7, 2014
Historical Examples of drove
"Looks as if there were something doing there," said Percival, as they drove off the wharf.
He drove first to the Milbrey house, on the chance that she might be at home.
And he appeared so well in the victoria when they drove in the park.
These he drove firmly into the soft bottom of a shallow lake.Ancient Man
Hendrik Willem van Loon
As he drove up the Street, he glanced across at the Page house.K
Mary Roberts Rinehart
- (tr)to drive (a group of livestock), usually for a considerable distance
- (intr)to be employed as a drover
Word Origin for drove
verb drives, driving, drove (drəʊv) or driven (ˈdrɪvən)
- to chase (game) from cover into more open ground
- to search (an area) for game
- to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- to make clear by special emphasis
- a road for vehicles, esp a private road leading to a house
- (capital when part of a street name)Woodland Drive
- the means by which force, torque, motion, or power is transmitted in a mechanismfluid drive
- (as modifier)a drive shaft
Word Origin for drive
Old English draf "beasts driven in a body, road along which cattle are driven," originally "act of driving," from drifan "to drive" (see drive (v.)).
Old English draf, past tense and obsolete past participle of drive (v.).
Old English drifan "to drive, force, hunt, pursue; rush against" (class I strong verb; past tense draf, past participle drifen), from Proto-Germanic *dribanan (cf. Old Frisian driva, Old Saxon driban, Dutch drijven, Old High German triban, German treiben, Old Norse drifa, Gothic dreiban "to drive"). Not found outside Germanic. Original sense of "pushing from behind," altered in Modern English by application to automobiles. Related: Driving.
MILLER: "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are." ["Repo Man," 1984]
1690s, "act of driving," from drive (v.). Meaning "excursion by vehicle" is from 1785. Golfing sense of "forcible blow" is from 1836. Meaning "organized effort to raise money" is 1889, American English. Sense of "dynamism" is from 1908. In the computing sense, first attested 1963.