2. Verb. (third-person singular of drive) ¹
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Definition of Drives
1. drive [v] - See also: drive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drives
Literary usage of Drives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER XVI "WHEN THE DEVIL drives" MONSIEUR DE VIVONNE had laid his ambuscade
with discretion. With a closed carriage and a band of chosen ruffians he had ..."
2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1862)
"... —drives General Rey"from Allora to Malaga—Soult marches from ... Lecor opposes
the enemy with skill and courage—Marmont drives Trant from Guarda, ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"As, when a blast of Zephyr drives the deep, Billow on billow to an echoing shore
The sea ... drives ..."
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