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drives down

drives down is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 drives down

What is drives down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Drives down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drive down.

Words near drives down in the dictionary

  1. drives a wedge
  2. drives a wedge between
  3. drives at
  4. drives away
  5. drives back
  6. drives down
  7. drives in
  8. drives into the ground
  9. drives it down
  10. drives off
  11. drives one's pigs to market

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drives 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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