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driving back

driving back is the present 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 driving back

What is driving back the present participle of?
Driving back is the present participle of drive back.

Words near driving back in the dictionary

  1. driving a wedge between
  2. driving at
  3. driving away
  4. driving axle
  5. driving axles
  6. driving back
  7. driving band
  8. driving bands
  9. driving car
  10. driving cars
  11. driving down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driving 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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