Verb

To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

to drive sheep out of a field

* Jowett (Thucyd.)

A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.

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

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To cause animals to flee out of.

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

To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

(ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

To compel (to do something).

To cause to become.

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(cricket) To hit the ball with a .

To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

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

To move forcefully.

* Dryden

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.

* Prescott

under cover of the night and a driving tempest

* Tennyson

Time driveth onward fast, / And in a little while our lips are dumb.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny. }}

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

* Tennyson

enough to drive one mad

* Sir Philip Sidney

He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.

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

* Collier

The trade of life can not be driven without partners.

(Francis Bacon)

To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

* Dryden

to drive the country, force the swains away

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

(Tomlinson)

(obsolete) To distrain for rent.

Verb

(lb) To move or develop something.

#To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.

#*(Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)

#*:A flattering painter who made it his care / To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

#*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

#*:Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, / Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power?

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#To deduce or infer.

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#(lb) (of drinks, especially tea) To leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.

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#(lb) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.

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#To take into the lungs; to inhale.

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#*1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)

#*:So always look on the bright side of death / Just before you draw your terminal breath

#(lb) To move; to come or go.

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#(lb) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

#*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

#*:We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.

# To withdraw.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action.

#(lb) To draw up (a document).

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Clerk, draw a deed of gift.

(lb) To exert or experience force.

#(lb) To drag, pull.

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#*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Chapter VIII

#*:Lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus we sat throughout the hot night. She told me of her abduction and of the fright she had undergone, and together we thanked God that she had come through unharmed, because the great brute had dared not pause along the danger-infested way.

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#*:At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.

#(lb) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.

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#To pull out (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).

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#To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

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#(lb) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.

#(of curtains, etc.) To close.

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#(lb) To take the top card of a deck into hand.

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To remove or separate or displace.

#To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.

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#*Bible, (w) iv. 11

#*:The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

#*(George Cheyne) (1671-1743)

#*:Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.

#To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

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#*:Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can be generated.

#(lb) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:until you had drawn oaths from him

#To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Greater hulks draw deep.

# To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.

# To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.

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#(lb) To consume, for example, power.

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(lb) To change in size or shape.

#To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:How long her face is drawn !

#*(John Richard Green) (1837-1883)

#*:the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee

#(lb) To become contracted; to shrink.

#*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

#*:to draw into less room

(lb) To attract or be attracted.

#To attract.

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#(lb) To search for game.

#*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man) , Penguin 2013, p.87:

#*:On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.

#To cause.

#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=July 3, author=Piers Newbury, work=BBC Sport

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#(lb) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

#*:Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much.

(Usually as draw on' or ' draw upon ): to rely on; utilize as a source.

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*(John Jay) (1745-1829)

*:You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey.

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To disembowel.

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*:In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.

To end a game in a (with neither side winning).

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(lb) A random process.

#To select by the drawing of lots.

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#*:Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn .

#(lb) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.

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#(lb) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out .

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(lb) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.