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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.