(Irregular preterit, past participle: drove, driven).
1. To operate a vehicle; To travel in a vehicle; SYN. motor, cruise, travel.
2. To push or propel.
3. To cause someone or something to move by driving.
4. To cause to function.
5. To cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force.<br />
6. To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on.
7. To compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.
8. To have certain properties when driven; SYN. ride.
9. To hit (a ball) very hard and straight, as (in cricket) with the bat swinging more or less vertically.
10. To strike (the ball) with a driver, as in teeing off; in golf.
11. To move into a desired direction of discourse; SYN. get, aim.
12. To SYN. tool.
13. To search (an area) for game.
14. To excavate horizontally, in mining.
15. To chase (game) from cover into more open ground.
1. To act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel; SYN. pilot.
2. To travel by boat, car, or plane.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: rode, ridden).
1. To be carried or travel on or in a vehicle.
2. To climb up on the body.
3. To sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; SYN. sit.
4. To ride over, along, or through.
5. To move like a floating object.
6. To continue undisturbed and without interference.
7. To lie moored or anchored.
8. To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot.
9. To copulate with, as of animals; SYN. mount.