Drive Past Tense

The past tense of Drive is drove.

1. drive

verb. ['ˈdraɪv'] operate or control a vehicle.

Rhymes with Drive

• contrive
• deprive
• survive
• strive
• revive
• connive
• thrive
• o'five
• dr.
• derive
• clyve
• clive
• alive
• vive
• shive
• live
• jive
• hive
• five
• dive
• arrive
• i've

How do you pronounce drive?

Pronounce drive as draɪv.

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Sentences with drive

1. Noun, singular or mass
Locate the two wheel pulleys that the drive belt runs through.

2. Verb, base form
You can drive for hundreds of miles on a tank of gas, park easily and pollute less.

Quotes about drive

1. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

2. Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
- Sloan Wilson

3. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
- Dale Carnegie

2. drive

verb. ['ˈdraɪv'] travel or be transported in a vehicle.

3. drive

verb. ['ˈdraɪv'] force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.

4. drive

verb. ['ˈdraɪv'] cause someone or something to move by driving.

5. drive

verb. ['ˈdraɪv'] to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.

6. drive

noun. ['ˈdraɪv'] the act of applying force to propel something.

7. drive

noun. ['ˈdraɪv'] a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine.

8. drive

verb. ['ˈdraɪv'] cause to move back by force or influence.

9. drive

noun. ['ˈdraɪv'] a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.

10. drive

verb. ['ˈdraɪv'] compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.