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drive

/dɹaɪv/
noun
  1. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

    "Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again."

  2. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

  3. An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.

Synonymsline drive, disk drive, approach, driveway, engine, mechanism
Antonymsinertia, laziness, phlegm, sloth
verb
  1. To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

    "You drive nails into wood with a hammer."

  2. To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

    "My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction."

  3. To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

Synonymsmove, operate, make, render, send, compel

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