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drivingverbpresent participle of drive to urge, push, or force onwardcowboys drove the herd of cattle from San Antonio to San Francisco herding, punching, running shepherdingwranglingegging, exhorting, flogging, goading, hounding, pressing, pricking, prodding, prompting, scourging, spurring, whipping 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 propelling, pushing, shoving, thrusting impelling, movingbearing (down), compressing, depressing, jamming, pressuring, squashing, squeezing, weighing (upon)bulldozing, compelling, forcing, leaning (on or against), muscling, ramming to cause (a person) to give in to pressurethe corrupt governor was driven out of office blackjacking, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, forcing, impelling, impressing, making, muscling, obligating, obliging, pressing, pressuring, sandbagging browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, hectoring, intimidatingblackmailing, high-pressuring, menacing, shaming, terrorizing, threateningdraggingbadgering, harassing, hounding twisting one's arm allowing, letting, permittingarguing, convincing, inducing, moving, persuading, prevailing (on or upon), satisfying, talking (into), winning (over) to cause to functionmachinery driven by waterpower activating, actuating, cranking (up), moving, running, setting off, sparking, starting, touching off, triggering, turning on kicking over, turning overcharging, electrifying, energizing, firing, fueling(or fuelling), generating, powering, pushingdischarging, launching, releasing, switching, trippingreactivating, rechargingarousing, exciting, jump-starting, kick-starting, stimulating, vitalizingigniting, inciting, instigating, provoking, quickening, stirring upaccelerating, catalyzing, speeding (up), stepping up cutting, cutting out, deactivating, killing, shutting off, turning off arresting, braking, checking, cutting off, drawing up, halting, jamming, stalling, sticking, stoppingdecelerating, repressing, slowing, stunting, suppressing to set or keep in motionthis motor drives the gears, which then turn the shaft actuating, impelling, moving, propelling, working activating, motivating, provokingabetting, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, raising, stirring (up), whipping (up)setting off, triggering, trippingarousing, exciting, firing (up), galvanizing, inflaming(also enflaming), inspiring, instigating, rousing, stimulating bridling, checking, constraining, containing, controlling, curbing, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining to proceed or move quicklythe runner drove past the finish line and then came to a dead stop barreling(or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bombing(slang), bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, flying, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying(or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, nipping, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, shooting, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling(or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming beetling, darting, flitting, scampering, scudding, scufflingstampeding, streaking, whizzinggalloping, jogging, sprintingaccelerating, quickening, stepping outcatching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtakingarrowing, beelining beating it, getting a move on, making tracks, shaking a leg, stepping on it crawling, creeping, poking dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, hanging (around or out), lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, tarryingambling, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up) in the 14th century |