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Exact Match:

drive

the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"

a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the family for a drive in his new car"

the act of driving a herd of animals overland

(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)

hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced his drive out of bounds"

a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views"

a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds"

(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium

the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"

a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire

move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?"

hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the game"

hunting: search for game; "drive the forest"

cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer"

excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel"

hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically; "drive a ball"

strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golf ball"

cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; "drive the ball far out into the field"

push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the wall"

compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs"

travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"

proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work"

operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?"

urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn"

cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"

move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around the corner"

work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"

to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her passion"

have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well"

Synonyms:

• Autobahn,
• Sunday drive,
• US highway,
• acceleration,
• activity,
• actuate,
• advance,
• advance against,
• advance upon,
• adventuresomeness,
• adventurousness,
• aggravated assault,
• aggression,
• aggressiveness,
• airing,
• alley,
• alleyway,
• allude to,
• ambition,
• ambitiousness,
• amperage,
• amphibious attack,
• angle,
• animate,
• appeal,
• appliance,
• approach,
• ardor,
• armed assault,
• armipotence,
• army,
• arterial,
• arterial highway,
• arterial street,
• artery,
• assailing,
• assailment,
• assault,
• attack,
• authority,
• auto,
• automatic response,
• autoroute,
• autostrada,
• avenue,
• bait the hook,
• bang,
• banzai attack,
• barnstorm,
• be responsible for,
• bear,
• bear down upon,
• bear off,
• bear upon,
• beat,
• beef,
• belt highway,
• beset,
• bicycle,
• bike,
• bind,
• bite,
• bitingness,
• black power,
• blind alley,
• blind impulse,
• blitz,
• blitzkrieg,
• bob,
• boost,
• bore,
• boulevard,
• bowl,
• brain wave,
• brainstorm,
• breakthrough,
• brute force,
• buck,
• bull,
• bulldoze,
• bump,
• bump against,
• bunch,
• bunt,
• burden,
• burrow,
• burst,
• bus,
• bustle,
• busy,
• butt,
• butt against,
• bypass,
• byway,
• cage,
• camino real,
• campaign,
• carriageway,
• carry on,
• carry out,
• carry through,
• catch a train,
• cause,
• cause to,
• causeway,
• causey,
• charge,
• charioteer,
• charisma,
• chase,
• chauffeur,
• chaussee,
• circumferential,
• clam,
• close,
• clout,
• coerce,
• cogence,
• cogency,
• colony,
• commitment,
• compel,
• compulsion,
• concupiscence,
• conduct,
• constrain,
• constraint,
• control,
• convenience,
• copilot,
• corduroy road,
• corral,
• counterattack,
• counteroffensive,
• county road,
• coup de main,
• course,
• court,
• cram,
• crescent,
• crippling attack,
• crowd,
• crusade,
• cul-de-sac,
• curiosity,
• cuttingness,
• cycle,
• dap,
• dash,
• dead set at,
• dead-end street,
• deal with,
• delve,
• demand,
• descent on,
• desideration,
• desire,
• determination,
• dib,
• dibble,
• dig,
• dig out,
• dike,
• dint,
• direct,
• dirt road,
• dive,
• diversion,
• diversionary attack,
• dog,
• dredge,
• drift,
• drift off course,
• drill,
• drive at,
• drive on,
• driveway,
• driving force,
• drove,
• duress,
• dynamism,
• eagerness,
• effect,
• effectiveness,
• effectuality,
• effort,
• egg,
• elbow,
• energy,
• enforce,
• engine,
• enginery,
• enterprise,
• enterprisingness,
• enthusiasm,
• entrain,
• excavate,
• excursion,
• exhort,
• exigency,
• expedition,
• expressway,
• facility,
• fag,
• faith,
• falcon,
• fall down,
• fancy,
• fantasy,
• fetch away,
• fire,
• fish,
• fixture,
• flank,
• flank attack,
• flash,
• fleeting impulse,
• flock,
• flower power,
• flurry,
• flush,
• flutter,
• fly,
• fly-fish,
• follow the hounds,
• force,
• force majeure,
• forcefulness,
• forge ahead,
• forward,
• fowl,
• freeway,
• frontal attack,
• full blast,
• full force,
• furrow,
• gam,
• gang,
• gas,
• gas attack,
• get at,
• get-up-and-get,
• get-up-and-go,
• getaway,
• getup,
• gig,
• ginger,
• give an impetus,
• give momentum,
• go,
• go ahead,
• go all out,
• go by rail,
• go fishing,
• go hunting,
• go-ahead,
• go-getting,
• go-to-itiveness,
• goad,
• gouge,
• gouge out,
• grave,
• gravel road,
• great cause,
• grig,
• grip,
• groove,
• grub,
• guddle,
• guide,
• gumption,
• gun,
• gut response,
• guts,
• hammer,
• handle,
• haste,
• have,
• have in mind,
• hawk,
• head-on attack,
• helter-skelter,
• herd,
• high-pressure,
• highroad,
• highway,
• highways and byways,
• hint at,
• hold,
• hold the reins,
• holy war,
• hope,
• horme,
• host,
• hound,
• hunt,
• hunt down,
• hurry,
• hurry-scurry,
• hurtle,
• hustle,
• impel,
• impellent,
• impelling force,
• impetus,
• imply,
• impressiveness,
• impulse,
• impulsion,
• incentive,
• incisiveness,
• incite,
• incitement,
• indicate,
• induce,
• industry,
• infatuate,
• infiltrate,
• infiltration,
• influence,
• initiative,
• inspiration,
• instigate,
• instinct,
• intellectual curiosity,
• intend,
• interest,
• interstate highway,
• intimate,
• involuntary impulse,
• irresistible force,
• issue,
• jab,
• jack,
• jacklight,
• jam,
• jig,
• jihad,
• jog,
• joggle,
• jolt,
• jostle,
• journey,
• joyride,
• keenness,
• keep busy,
• kennel,
• kick,
• lane,
• lash,
• launch an attack,
• libido,
• lifework,
• lift,
• lightning attack,
• lightning war,
• litter,
• local road,
• lower,
• lunge,
• lust for learning,
• machine,
• machinery,
• main drag,
• main force,
• main road,
• main strength,
• make,
• make a train,
• make go,
• make leeway,
• make things hum,
• mana,
• manage,
• maneuver,
• manipulate,
• march against,
• march upon,
• mass attack,
• mass movement,
• mean,
• mechanical aid,
• mechanical device,
• mechanism,
• megadeath,
• mews,
• might,
• might and main,
• mightiness,
• mind,
• mine,
• mobilize,
• moil,
• moment,
• momentum,
• mordancy,
• motivate,
• motive power,
• motor,
• motorcycle,
• motorway,
• mount an attack,
• move,
• movement,
• moxie,
• mugging,
• muscle power,
• natural impulse,
• need,
• nervosity,
• nervousness,
• net,
• not let go,
• notion,
• nudge,
• oblige,
• obsess,
• offense,
• offensive,
• onset,
• onslaught,
• open an offensive,
• operate,
• oppress,
• outing,
• overdrive,
• overkill,
• overtask,
• overtax,
• overwork,
• pack,
• panzer warfare,
• parkway,
• passion,
• pave,
• paved road,
• pay off,
• pedal,
• peel off,
• pep,
• pepper,
• perform on,
• persistence,
• pickup,
• pike,
• pile drive,
• pilot,
• pinch,
• piss and vinegar,
• pitch,
• pizzazz,
• place,
• plank road,
• play,
• pleasure,
• pleasure principle,
• plunge,
• pod,
• poignancy,
• poke,
• pole,
• poop,
• possess,
• potence,
• potency,
• potentiality,
• pound,
• power,
• power pack,
• power plant,
• power source,
• power structure,
• power struggle,
• powerfulness,
• practice,
• preoccupy,
• prepotency,
• press,
• press on,
• pressure,
• prick,
• pride,
• primary highway,
• principle,
• private road,
• proceed,
• prod,
• productiveness,
• productivity,
• propel,
• propelling,
• propelment,
• propulsion,
• prowl after,
• puissance,
• pull,
• pulsion,
• punch,
• punch cattle,
• push,
• pushfulness,
• pushiness,
• pushing,
• pushingness,
• put in motion,
• quarry,
• quick hunch,
• quickening,
• race,
• ram,
• ram down,
• rash impulse,
• rattle,
• reason for being,
• refer to,
• reflex,
• require,
• restrain,
• ride,
• ride herd on,
• ride to hounds,
• right-of-way,
• ring road,
• road,
• roadbed,
• roadway,
• roll,
• round up,
• route nationale,
• row,
• royal road,
• run,
• run against,
• run at,
• rush,
• sag,
• sally,
• sap,
• scamper,
• school,
• scoop,
• scoop out,
• scrabble,
• scramble,
• scrape,
• scratch,
• scurry,
• scuttle,
• see to,
• seine,
• send,
• set agoing,
• set going,
• set in motion,
• sexual desire,
• shake,
• shepherd,
• shikar,
• shoal,
• shock tactics,
• shoot,
• shoot ahead,
• shoulder,
• shove,
• shovel,
• shoving,
• shrimp,
• shunt,
• sic,
• sinew,
• sinewiness,
• sink,
• skulk,
• sloth,
• snap,
• solo,
• sortie,
• spade,
• speed,
• speedup,
• speedway,
• spin,
• spirit,
• sport,
• spunk,
• spur,
• stab,
• stalk,
• stamp,
• starch,
• start,
• state highway,
• steam,
• steer,
• step lively,
• step-up,
• stick,
• still-fish,
• still-hunt,
• strain,
• street,
• strength,
• stress,
• strike,
• strive,
• strong arm,
• strong language,
• sudden thought,
• suggest,
• superhighway,
• superiority,
• superpower,
• sweat,
• sweep,
• sweep along,
• take a joyride,
• take care of,
• take the helm,
• tamp,
• task,
• tax,
• taxi,
• terrace,
• thirst for knowledge,
• thoroughfare,
• through street,
• thrust,
• thruway,
• tie,
• toil,
• toll road,
• tool,
• torch,
• tour,
• township road,
• track,
• trail,
• travel,
• trawl,
• treadle,
• trench,
• trenchancy,
• trip,
• troll,
• troop,
• trough,
• trundle,
• tug,
• tunnel,
• turn,
• turnpike,
• unprovoked assault,
• up-and-comingness,
• urge,
• urgency,
• use force upon,
• utility,
• validity,
• vehemence,
• velocity,
• venturesomeness,
• venturousness,
• verve,
• vigor,
• vigorousness,
• vim,
• virility,
• virtue,
• virulence,
• vitality,
• want,
• wanting,
• war,
• wattage,
• weight,
• whale,
• wheel,
• whip,
• whip on,
• whirl,
• will,
• will and pleasure,
• wish,
• wish fulfillment,
• work,
• wrangle,
• wynd,
• yaw,
• yaw off,
• zeal,
• zing,
• zip