Word Finder - driven

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To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

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You drive nails into wood with a hammer.

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To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

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My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.

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To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

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To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.

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(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

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to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field

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To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

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To cause animals to flee out of.

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The beaters drove the brambles, causing a great rush of rabbits and other creatures.

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To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

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You drive nails into wood with a hammer.

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To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

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The pistons drive the crankshaft.

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To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

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drive a car

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To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

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What drives a person to run a marathon?

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To compel (to do something).

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Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.

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To cause to become.

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This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity.   You are driving me crazy!

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To hit the ball with a drive.

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To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

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I drive to work every day.

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To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

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My wife drove me to the airport.

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To move forcefully.

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To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

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To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

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

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To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

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

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To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.

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To distrain for rent.

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To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.

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To be the dominant party in a sex act.

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Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.

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(of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.

I know you haven't driven in 15 years!

You are driven by something other than power.

Given his experience and lauding as one of the most capable strategic battle planners in the Five Galaxies-- the only reason he hadn't been driven out by the Yirkin despite his tiny army-- he found himself learning a tidbit here and there.

Some of the people had driven a long way to attend.

The hens were driven in by my approach.

The rest of the one hour trip to Ouray was driven in silence.

The driven woman was different than Xander remembered; this Eden had no vamp-army or grandiose plan of destroying a world.

The driver had driven in circles and down every back alley he could find until Jule was confident there was no one tailing them.

He didn't have a Texaco charge card and they don't take Visa or MasterCard," Hunter replied, and then added, "but I've driven that route.

Other than the test drive, it was the first time he had driven it.

The coachman who had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters for Prince Andrew.

Betsy had driven our only car so I wasn't able to drive over there myself.

It was then that my slowly reacting brain, flowing like cold molasses began to function, more than a gerbil driven wheel.

The authorities secured the van's mileage from the previous owner and carefully attempted to construct miles driven to pin-point Grasso's hideout.

She touched her palm to his, driven back by the impact of images that rippled through her.

It was still light enough to see across the gorge when an opening in the trees allowed, but the long swing to the far end of valley was away from the direction the vehicle had driven and blocked from sight by the curve of the canyon.

The news of their deal had infuriated Gabriel once more and driven him off, leading Deidre to believe that he had loved the human more than her.

It seemed to Dean she'd spent her life on the outside, in some respects by choice, somehow driven from one social plane down to another, much lower, until there was nothing left but death.

She was sick of hearing him talk about Alex as though he was a testosterone driven wild man.

He repeated their sub­sequent conversation after he'd driven down and met her.

But he seemed calmer than the White God, more driven.

By dawn, the intruders were driven beyond the breached wall, and stonecutters and woodworkers summoned to begin repairing the wall behind the ongoing battle.

What Denton wanted, he got - one way or another, and lately he seemed driven by some inner demon.

When the usurper was in turn driven out by a Cyprian noble, Evagoras, fearing that his life was in danger, fled to Cilicia.

Ibn Tumart, who had been driven from several other towns for exhibitions of reforming zeal, now took refuge among his own people, the Masmuda, in the Atlas.

They were finally driven ashore on the island of Seriphus, where they were picked up by a fisherman named Dictys.

In 1757 he presented a telescope to the king, so accurately driven by clockwork that it would follow a star all night long.

The Pisans took up the challenge, and Musat was driven out of Cagliari with the help of the Genoese in 1022 for the third time.

Wilkes-Barre in 1763, but were (October 15th) attacked and driven away by the Indians.

A violent gust strikes the plate, which is driven back and carried by its own momentum far past the position in which a steady wind of the same force would place it; by the time the motion has reached the pen it has been greatly exaggerated by the springiness of the connexion, and not only is the plate itself driven too far back, but also its position is wrongly recorded by the pen; the combined errors act the same way, and more than double the real maximum pressure may be indicated on the chart.

While Europe and probably North America were occupied by a warm temperate flora, tropical types had been driven southward, while the adaptation of others to arctic conditions had become accentuated.

That the arctic flora was driven south into Central Europe cannot be contested in the face of the evidence collected by Nathorst from deposits connected with the boulderclay.

Saumarez, and driven to seek the protection of the Spanish batteries in Algeciras.

The presence of a dense population has driven out some, and brought in others, including some noxious weeds.

The development of steam navigation for the carrying of large cargoes has driven this fleet from the sea.

An attempt of the provincials to seize and hold a commanding hill in Charlestown brought on the battle of Bunker Hill (June 1 7, 1775), in which the provincials were driven from the ground, although they lost much less heavily than the royal troops.

Beavers are essentially aquatic in their habits, never travelling by land unless driven by necessity.

San Antonio was easily taken about noon of the same day, and in the afternoon the main division of the Mexican army was driven from the stone church and intrenchments at Churubusco.

Three or four monasteries of the revived English Benedictines were established on the continent at the beginning of the 17th century, and remained there till driven back to England by the French Revolution.

As the surface gold of the islands was exhausted, and the feeble island races perished before the invaders, the Spaniards were driven to go farther afield.

Forced labour was required to work them and the natives were driven to the toil.

It was a marked characteristic of the English colonists, and a strong element in their prosperity, that they were hospitable in welcoming men of other races, - Germans from the Palatinate, and French Huguenots driven out by persecution who brought with them some capital, more intelligence and an enduring hatred of Roman Catholic France.

His father Dhatu Sena, a country priest, had, after many years of foreign oppression, roused his countrymen, in 459, to rebellion, led them to victory, driven out the Tamil oppressors, and entered on his reign as a national hero.

Until a period comparatively recent, they were relatively numerous, and were driven in droves to the pasturages of the Severn and the neighbouring markets.

The Prussians were driven from the town, but they managed to effect a roundabout retreat to Ligny, where they rallied.

Had Napoleon attempted this he would (if successful) have driven the Anglo-Dutch army back upon the Prussians, instead of separating the allies, as he actually tried to do and very nearly succeeded in doing.

The charge, however, over-reached itself, and the British cavalry, crushed by fresh French horsemen hurled on them by the emperor, were driven back with great loss.

The cavalry gradually became hopelessly entangled among the squares they were unable to break, and at last they were driven down the face of the ridge and the most dramatic part of the battle came to an end.

When once it was in conflict with authority it was driven to strengthen its basis by a more pronounced hostility against the system of the church, and generally ended by borrowing something from Catharism.

When forbidden to preach without the permission of the bishop, they were driven to assert the right of all to preach, without distinction of age or sex.