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driven away

driven away is the past participle of drive away.

Meaning of drive away

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, away.
    • This car's a real bargain, and you could drive it away this afternoon!
  2. (idiomatic) To force someone or something to leave
    • I managed to drive the vultures away by shouting and waving my arms about.

Questions about driven away

What is driven away the past participle of?
Driven away is the past participle of drive away.

Words near driven away in the dictionary

  1. driven a nail where it would go
  2. driven a stake through its heart
  3. driven a wedge
  4. driven a wedge between
  5. driven at
  6. driven away
  7. driven back
  8. driven down
  9. driven element
  10. driven elements
  11. driven in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driven away (page history and authors); drive away (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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