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drives off

drives off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drive off.

Meaning of drive off

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, off.
    • We started the car and drove off.

Questions about drives off

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

Words near drives off in the dictionary

  1. drives back
  2. drives down
  3. drives in
  4. drives into the ground
  5. drives it down
  6. drives off
  7. drives one's pigs to market
  8. drives out
  9. drives someone crazy
  10. drives someone insane
  11. drives someone mad

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drives off (page history and authors); drive off (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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