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driven down

driven down is the past participle of drive down.

Meaning of drive down

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To cause or force a price, quantity, rate, etc. to decrease.
    • The wind chill drives down the temperature.
    Antonyms:
    drive up
  2. (idiomatic, informal) To drive to a location that is south of one's current location.

Questions about driven down

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

Words near driven down in the dictionary

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

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