Antonyms for drives

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : drahyv

Phonetic Transcription : draɪv

Definition of drives

Origin : Old English drifan "to drive, force, hunt, pursue; rush against" (class I strong verb; past tense draf, past participle drifen), from Proto-Germanic *dribanan (cf. Old Frisian driva, Old Saxon driban, Dutch drijven, Old High German triban, German treiben, Old Norse drifa, Gothic dreiban "to drive"). Not found outside Germanic. Original sense of "pushing from behind," altered in Modern English by application to automobiles. Related: Driving.
MILLER: "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are." ["Repo Man," 1984]

noun journey by vehicle
noun campaign for cause
noun person's will to achieve
verb move or urge on
verb moving, controlling a vehicle
verb hit with heavy blow

Example sentences :

I can well believe it, for he drives a Hispano-Suiza in the Bois every afternoon.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

And even for me the lonesomeness of it drives me 'most crazy sometimes.
Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Went out with him on some of his drives while he made his calls, you know.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Cyrus drives home the conscience of indebtedness la Portia v. Shylock.
Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon

In the course of our drives we went to Mr. and Mrs. Robinson's house.
Extract from : « The Last Voyage » by Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey

But it is noticeable that he does not refer in that poem to the winter drives to meeting.
Extract from : « Whittier-land » by Samuel T. Pickard

Now many coachmen as drives a first-rate team'd put it on and try and pass 'em.
Extract from : « Tom Brown at Rugby » by Thomas Hughes

Sometimes she drives oxen, and I believe she invariably makes her own clothes.
Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss

Some drives and walks had been designed—what will not landscape gardening do?
Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever

“I think it will be better if Lafe drives,” objected Isobel.
Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet

Synonyms for drives

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