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driven back

driven back is the past participle of drive back.

Meaning of drive back

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.

Questions about driven back

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

Words near driven back in the dictionary

  1. driven a stake through its heart
  2. driven a wedge
  3. driven a wedge between
  4. driven at
  5. driven away
  6. driven back
  7. driven down
  8. driven element
  9. driven elements
  10. driven in
  11. driven into the ground

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