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driving down

driving down is the present participle and gerund 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 driving down

What is driving down the present participle and gerund of?
Driving down is the present participle and gerund of drive down.

Words near driving down in the dictionary

  1. driving back
  2. driving band
  3. driving bands
  4. driving car
  5. driving cars
  6. driving down
  7. driving drunk
  8. driving examiner
  9. driving examiners
  10. driving force
  11. driving forces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driving 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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