0 to move or travel on land in a motor vehicle, especially as the person controlling the vehicle's movement:
1 to force someone or something to go somewhere or do something:
A post had been driven (= hit hard) into the ground near the tree.
By the end of the year, most of the occupying troops had been driven from the city.
[ + to infinitive ] In the end, it was his violent behaviour that drove her to leave home.
In the course of history, love has driven men and women to strange extremes.
Recent events have driven the stock market to lows not seen in ten years.
My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.
He leaves dirty clothes all over the floor and it's driving me mad.
When he runs his fingers through my hair, it drives me wild!
2 to provide the power to keep a machine working, or to make something happen:
3 used in the names of some roads, especially roads containing houses:
12 Maple Drive
I parked in/on the drive.
4 a planned effort to achieve something:
The latest promotional material is all part of a recruitment drive.
UK I'm meant to be on an economy drive at the moment, so I'm trying not to spend too much.
5 a device for storing computer information:
a hard drive
a DVD drive
a CD drive
7 energy and determination to achieve things:
8 to travel in a motor vehicle, esp. as the person who operates it:
9 to force someone or something to go somewhere or do something:
We have a 200-mile drive ahead of us.
Riverside Drive
12 a planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something:
13 strong determination to do or achieve something:
15 to cause something to progress, develop, or grow stronger:
18 to expect a lot in exchange for what you pay or agree to:
19 an effort to achieve something:
drive for sth The supermarket continues in its relentless drive for expansion.
drive to do sth They are expanding their telephone banking service for small businesses in a key part of their drive to cut costs and boost efficiency.
a recruitment/marketing/cost-cutting drive
20 a piece of equipment for reading and storing computer information:
21 energy and determination to achieve things:
I asked him to drive more slowly, but he didn't take any notice.
Extreme stress had driven him to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
His family could not understand how this quiet, well-adjusted man could have been driven to this terrible deed.
Self-hatred apparently drove her to mutilate her own face.
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