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Antonyms for driving

Grammar : Adj
Spell : drahy-ving
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdraɪ vɪŋ


Definition of driving

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]
  • adj forceful
Example sentences :
  • To be with those she loved best, and to be driving over the beautiful earth!
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Austin and I have the most important business to transact at Witherby, so he's driving me over.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • Driving with me is no great catch, perhaps; but a promise is a promise.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • He's been scheming, ever since I told him you were coming, to get out of driving in to meet you.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • Well, it was Martin himself who was driving her to such thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • The pursuit had a malignant pleasure in it: we knew the men we were driving before us.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • Driving, swimming, rowing, and other manly sports should be favored.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 » by Various
  • Steve Webster was driving Doxy Morton in his mother's buggy.
  • Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • I go out at daybreak, driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Johnson and Clawbonny looked at each other, wondering what the captain was driving at.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne

Synonyms for driving

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