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Another word for drive

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Noun

  1. A ride in a vehicle

      1. To rotate rapidly; whirl.
      2. To have a sensation of whirling, as from dizziness; reel:
      3. To make thread or yarn by drawing out and twisting fibers.
      1. To cause to move around an axis or center; cause to rotate or revolve:
      2. To cause to move around in order to achieve a result, such as opening, closing, tightening, or loosening:
      3. To alter or control the functioning of (a mechanical device, for example) by the use of a rotating or similar movement:
      1. To move swiftly on foot so that both or all feet are not on the ground during each stride.
      2. To retreat rapidly; flee:
      3. To depart; leave:
      1. A short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; an outing.
      2. To make a short journey.
      1. A usually short journey made for pleasure; an outing.
      2. A roundtrip in a passenger vehicle at a special low fare.
      3. A group taking a short pleasure trip together.
      1. A journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite objective:
      2. The group undertaking such a journey.
      3. Speed or promptness in performance.
      1. A trip with visits to various places of interest for business, pleasure, or instruction.
      2. A group organized for such a trip or for a shorter sightseeing excursion.
      3. A brief trip to or through a place for the purpose of seeing it:
      1. Exposure to air for freshening or drying.
      2. Exposure to open air for exercise or the promotion of health.
      3. Exposure to public attention.
      1. To move about aimlessly:
      2. To walk casually or leisurely:
      3. To follow an irregularly winding course of motion or growth:
      1. An excursion, typically a pleasure trip.
      2. A walk outdoors.
      3. The public disclosure that someone who is assumed to be heterosexual is actually gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
      1. A going from one place to another; a journey.
      2. A stumble or fall.
      3. A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.
      1. To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
      2. To participate in a board sport such as snowboarding.
      3. To travel over a surface:
    See also:

    journey

  2. In baseball, a low, fast fly

    See also:

    hit

  3. A driveway

    See also:

    road

    driveway

  4. Impelling force

      1. To force or drive forward or onward; impel.
      2. To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.
      3. To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for:
      1. An impelling force; an impetus.
      2. The motion produced by such a force.
      3. A sudden wish or urge that prompts an unpremeditated act or feeling; an abrupt inclination:
      1. The power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task; enterprise and determination.
      2. A beginning or introductory step; an opening move:
      3. The power or right to introduce a new legislative measure.
      1. The capacity for work or vigorous activity:
      2. Exertion of vigor or power:
      3. Vitality and intensity of expression:
    See also:

    impulse

    force

    ambition

Verb

  1. To urge on

    See also:

    push

    encourage

    Antonyms:

  2. To cause to move; usually said of domestic animals

      1. (idiomatic, US) To supervise a group of people, such as workers, and/or their actions, i.e. their work.
      1. To quarrel noisily or angrily.
      2. To grasp and maneuver something.
      3. To attempt to deal with or understand something; contend or struggle:
      1. To gather (cattle) together by riding around them.
      2. (idiomatic) To collect or gather (something) together.
      3. (arithmetic) To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
      1. To push quickly, forcefully, or roughly:
      2. To put (something) roughly in a place:
      3. To push someone or something with force.
      1. To apply pressure against (something), especially for the purpose of moving it:
      2. To move (something) by exerting force against it; thrust or shove:
      3. To exert downward pressure on (a button or keyboard, for example); press.
      1. To hit sharply and swiftly; strike:
      2. To utter sharply:
      3. To criticize or blame.
      1. To strike repeatedly.
      2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.
      3. To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.
      1. To extend the leg away from the body; strike out with the foot or feet.
      2. To score or gain ground by kicking a ball.
      3. To punt in football.
      1. To pursue (game) for food or sport.
      2. To search through (an area) for prey:
      3. To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.
      1. A domesticated carnivorous mammal (Canis familiaris syn. Canis lupus subsp. familiaris) occurring as a wide variety of breeds, many of which are traditionally used for hunting, herding, drawing sleds, and other tasks, and are kept as pets.
      2. Any of various carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae, such as the dingo.
      3. A male animal of the family Canidae, especially of a fox or a domesticated breed.
      1. A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice.
      2. A dog.
      3. A contemptible person; a scoundrel.
      1. To move or act energetically and rapidly:
      2. To push or force one's way.
      3. To act aggressively, especially in business dealings.
      1. A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
      2. An incentive:
      3. A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
      1. To feel uneasy or concerned about something; be troubled.
      2. To seize something with the teeth and bite or tear repeatedly:
      3. To touch or handle something nervously or persistently:
      1. A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals.
      2. An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
      3. To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.
      1. To jab or poke, as with a pointed object.
      2. To goad to action; incite.
      3. A pointed object used to prod:
      1. A group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.
      2. A number of wild animals of one species that remain together as a group:
      3. A large number of people; a crowd:
      1. To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue:
      2. To follow (game) in order to capture or kill; hunt:
      3. To seek the favor or company of persistently:
    See also:

    push

  3. To manage a propelled vehicle

    See also:

    speed

    ride

    Antonyms:

  4. To force with blows

      1. A handheld machine for drilling rock and breaking up pavement, operated by compressed air.
      1. To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
      2. To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate:
      3. To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight.
      1. To make a short, sharp, explosive sound.
      2. To burst open with a short, sharp, explosive sound.
      3. To move quickly or unexpectedly; appear abruptly:
      1. To immerse in liquid for a period of time:
      2. To make thoroughly wet or saturated:
      3. To absorb (liquid, for example) through pores or interstices:
      1. A short stocking reaching a point between the ankle and the knee.
      2. A windsock.
      3. A light shoe worn by comic actors in ancient Greek and Roman plays.
      1. A forceful, resounding blow.
      2. The sound of such a blow.
      3. To strike or crash into with resounding impact.
      1. To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
      2. To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.
      3. To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.
      1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.
      2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.
      3. To damage, as by heavy wear:
      1. A blow, as with a blunt object.
      2. A muffled sound, as that produced by beating with a blunt object; a thud.
      3. To beat so as to produce a thump or thumps:
      1. To propel through the air with a motion of the hand or arm.
      2. To propel or discharge into the air by any means:
      3. To cause to move with great force or speed; propel or displace:
      1. To strike or hit with a flat object; whack.
      2. A hard blow with a flat object; a whack.
      1. To hit, wound, or kill with a missile fired from a weapon.
      2. To remove or destroy by firing or projecting a missile:
      3. To make (a hole, for example) by firing a weapon.
      1. To hit or push against with the head or horns; ram.
      2. To hit or push something with the head or horns.
      3. To project forward or out.