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drivenadjective caused by or suggestive of an irresistible urgea man with a driven need to be loved or liked by everyone besetting, compulsive, impulsive, obsessional, obsessive irrepressible, uncontrollableautomatic, instinctive, involuntary, knee-jerk, reflex, spontaneousconditioned, mechanicalunconscious, unthinking, unwittingcapricious, unpredictable, whimsical unforced, voluntary, willful(or wilful)controllable, manageable, resistible drivenverbpast participle of driveto urge, push, or force onwardcowboys drove the herd of cattle from San Antonio to San Francisco herded, punched, run shepherdedwrangledegged, exhorted, flogged, goaded, hounded, pressed, pricked, prodded, prompted, scourged, spurred, whipped to travel by a motorized vehicleI'm going to drive across the country—want to come? to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of onedrove the plunger into the opening propelled, pushed, shoved, thrust impelled, movedborne (down)(also born (down)), compressed, depressed, jammed, pressured, squashed, squeezed, weighed (upon)bulldozed, compelled, forced, leaned (on or against), muscled, rammed to cause (a person) to give in to pressurethe corrupt governor was driven out of office blackjacked, coerced, compelled, constrained, dragooned, forced, impelled, impressed, made, muscled, obligated, obliged, pressed, pressured, sandbagged browbeaten(or browbeat), bulldozed, bullied, cowed, hectored, intimidatedblackmailed, high-pressured, menaced, shamed, terrorized, threateneddraggedbadgered, harassed, hounded twisted one's arm allowed, let, permittedargued, convinced, induced, moved, persuaded, prevailed (on or upon), satisfied, talked (into), won (over) to cause to functionmachinery driven by waterpower activated, actuated, cranked (up), moved, run, set off, sparked, started, touched off, triggered, turned on kicked over, turned overcharged, electrified, energized, fired, fueled(or fuelled), generated, powered, pusheddischarged, launched, released, switched, trippedreactivated, rechargedaroused, excited, jump-started, kick-started, stimulated, vitalizedignited, incited, instigated, provoked, quickened, stirred upaccelerated, catalyzed, sped (up)(or speeded (up)), stepped up cut, cut out, deactivated, killed, shut off, turned off arrested, braked, checked, cut off, drawn up, halted, jammed, stalled, stopped, stuckdecelerated, repressed, slowed, stunted, suppressed to set or keep in motionthis motor drives the gears, which then turn the shaft actuated, impelled, moved, propelled, worked(or wrought) activated, motivated, provokedabetted, fermented, fomented, incited, raised, stirred (up), whipped (up)set off, triggered, trippedaroused, excited, fired (up), galvanized, inflamed(also enflamed), inspired, instigated, roused, stimulated bridled, checked, constrained, contained, controlled, curbed, inhibited, regulated, reined (in), restrained to proceed or move quicklythe runner drove past the finish line and then came to a dead stop barreled(or barrelled), belted, blasted, blazed, blown, bolted, bombed(slang), bowled, breezed, bundled, bustled, buzzed, cannonballed, careened, careered, chased, coursed, cracked (on), dashed, flown, hared, hastened, hied, highballed, hotfooted (it), humped, hurled, hurried, hurtled, hustled, jetted, jumped, motored, nipped, pelted, raced, rammed, ripped, rocketed, run, rushed, rustled, scooted, scurried, scuttled, shot, sped(or speeded), stepped, torn, traveled(or travelled), trotted, whirled, whisked, zipped, zoomed beetled, darted, flitted, scampered, scudded, scuffledstampeded, streaked, whizzedgalloped, jogged, sprintedaccelerated, quickened, stepped outcaught up, fast-forwarded, outpaced, outrun, outstripped, overtakenarrowed, beelined beaten it, got a move on, made tracks, shaken a leg, stepped on it crawled, crept, poked dallied, dawdled, dillydallied, dragged, hung (around or out)(also hanged (around or out)), lagged, lingered, loitered, poked, tarriedambled, lumbered, plodded, sauntered, shuffled, strolleddecelerated, slowed (down or up) in 1797 |