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driving off

driving off is the present participle and gerund 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 driving off

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

Words near driving off in the dictionary

  1. driving mirrors
  2. driving moccasin
  3. driving moccasins
  4. driving motor
  5. driving motors
  6. driving off
  7. driving one's pigs to market
  8. driving out
  9. driving permit
  10. driving permits
  11. driving rain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driving 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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