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Definition of Drive back
1. Verb. Force or drive back. "Rebuff the attack"
Generic synonyms: Defend, Fight, Fight Back, Fight Down, Oppose
Derivative terms: Rebuff, Repulsive, Repulse, Repulsion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drive Back
Literary usage of Drive back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"To beat or drive back ; to -I'Ku.fN iv/'/.ï. force to return ;—to push -PULSE,
sv or thrust back ; to reject, -PULS-ION. to refuse. -IVE. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"You cannot go wrong; these honest men will get the channels ready; you will easily
be able to drive back the two plugs with this pair of iron crooks; ..."
3. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"And as you drive back by boat through the silver of a moon toward Athens you
understand. to the little tram station whence you ..."
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