drove

For the verb: "to drive"

Simple Past:	drove
Past Participle:	driven

Multiple Entries:
  drove    drive  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drove1

past of drive.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drove2

▶noun a flock of animals being driven.

■ a large number of people doing the same thing: tourists arrived in droves.

▶verb (usu. as noun droving) historical drive (livestock) to market.

– derivatives
drover noun.

– origin OE drāf, rel. to drīfan ‘to drive’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drive/drʌɪv/

▶verb (past drove; past part. driven)

• 1 operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle.

  ■ convey in a car.

• 2 propel or carry along by force.

  ■ provide the power to operate (a machine).

  ■ (in ball games) hit or kick (the ball) hard.

  ■ bore (a tunnel).

• 3 urge or force to move in a specified direction.

• 4 compel to act in a particular way: he was driven by ambition.

▶noun

• 1 a journey in a car.

• 2 (also driveway) a short private road leading to a house.

• 3 an innate, biologically determined urge.

  ■ determination and ambition.

• 4 an organized effort to achieve a purpose: a recruitment drive.

  ■ Brit. a large organized gathering to play whist or another game.

• 5 the transmission of power to machinery or to the wheels of a vehicle.

  ■ Computing a disk drive.

• 6 an act of driving a ball.

• 7 an act of driving animals.

– phrases
what one is driving at the point that one is attempting to make.

– derivatives
drivability (also driveability) noun,
drivable (also driveable) adjective.

– origin OE drīfan, of Gmc origin.