1. Operate or control a vehicle
   "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?"
    
2. Travel or be transported in a vehicle
   "We drove to the university every morning";
   - motor
    
3. Cause someone or something to move by driving
   "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"
    
4. Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
   "He drives me mad";
   - force, ram
    
5. To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
   "The coach drove the team to practice harder"; "Ambition drove her to succeed at any cost"
    
6. Proceed along in a vehicle
   "We drive the turnpike to work";
   - take
    
7. Push, propel, or press with force
   "Drive a nail into the wall"
    
8. Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
   "drive the ball far out into the field"
    
9. Compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
   "She finally drove him to change jobs"
    
10. Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
    "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis";
    - tug, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], push, plow [US], sweat, plough on [Brit], plough [Brit], plow on [US]
     
11. Work as a driver
    "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"
     
12. Move by being propelled by a force
    "The car drove around the corner"
     
13. Urge forward
    "drive the cows into the barn"
     
14. (golf) strike with a driver, as in teeing off
    "drive a golf ball"
     
15. (sport) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
    "drive a ball"
     
16. Move into a desired direction of discourse
    "What are you driving at?";
    - get, aim
     
17. Have certain properties when driven
    "My new truck drives well";
    - ride
     
18. Cause to move back by force or influence
    "drive the enemy";
    - repel, repulse, force back, push back, beat back
     
19. (mining) excavate horizontally
    "drive a tunnel"
     
20. Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
    "this device drives the disks for the computer"; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"
     
21. (hunting) search for game
    "drive the forest"
     
22. (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
    "drive the game"

1. The act of applying force to propel something
   "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off";
   - thrust, driving force
    
2. A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
   "he took the family for a drive in his new car";
   - ride
    
3. A mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
   "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds"
    
4. (computing) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
   "He installed a new solid-state drive to improve his computer's performance"
    
5. The trait of being highly motivated
   "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"
    
6. A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
   "His drive for success pushed him to work long hours"
    
7. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
   "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant";
   - campaign, cause, crusade, movement, effort
    
8. A road leading up to a private house
   "they parked in the drive";
   - driveway, private road
    
9. A wide scenic road planted with trees
   "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views";
   - parkway [N. Amer]
    
10. Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
    "he sliced his drive out of bounds";
    - driving
     
11. (sport) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
    "Her powerful drive down the line won her the point"
     
12. The act of driving a herd of animals overland
    "The cowboys undertook a long drive to move the cattle to new pastures"

Derived forms: driven, drives, driving, drove

See also: dispel, rout out

Type of: actuation, carry, coerce, control, conveyance, cover, cross, cut across, cut through, device, dig, displace, excavate, fight, force, function, get across, get over, go, golf shot, golf stroke, hale [archaic], hit, hollow, hunt, hunt down, impel, intend, journey, journeying, locomote, make, mean, mechanism, move, operate, pass over, physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state, power, pressure, propel, propulsion, push, return, road, route, run, squeeze, struggle, swing, throw, thrust, track, track down, trait, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation, travel, traverse, venture, wing, work

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