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drive back

drive back verb: to force someone or something to retreat or move away; repel.

Verb

drive back (third-person singular simple present drives back, present participle driving back, simple past drove back, past participle driven back)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To force someone or something to retreat or move away; repel.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, back.

drive back meaning in Urdu and Kannada

drive back in Urdu

ہٹانا

drive back in Kannada

ಮರಲ್ಚು, ಮರರ್ಚು, ಮರಳಿಚು, ಮರಳ್ಚು, ಮಲರ್ಚು

Forms of drive back

third-person singular presentdrives back
present participledriving back
pastdrove back
past participledriven back

Questions about drive back

What does drive back mean?
Drive back means to force someone or something to retreat or move away; repel.
What is drive back in Urdu?
Drive back in Urdu is ہٹانا. See Drive back meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is drive back?
Drive back is a verb.
What is the past tense of drive back?
The past tense of drive back is drove back.

Words near drive back in the dictionary

  1. drive a stake through its heart
  2. drive a truck through something
  3. drive a wedge
  4. drive at
  5. drive away
  6. drive back
  7. drive by
  8. drive by shooting
  9. drive by shootings
  10. drive bys
  11. drive chain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drive back (page history and authors); drive back (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); drive back (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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