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

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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

(en verb)

To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.

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*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington

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To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.

(obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.

To strain; make tense.

(obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.

*, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.139:

Dotage, fatuity, or follyis for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].

To apply with energy.

To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.

To design mechanically or artistically; ; mold.

To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.