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drove away

drove away is the simple past of drive away.

Meaning of drive away

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, away.
    • This car's a real bargain, and you could drive it away this afternoon!
  2. (idiomatic) To force someone or something to leave
    • I managed to drive the vultures away by shouting and waving my arms about.

Questions about drove away

What is drove away the simple past of?
Drove away is the simple past of drive away.

Words near drove away in the dictionary

  1. drove a nail where it would go
  2. drove a stake through its heart
  3. drove a wedge
  4. drove a wedge between
  5. drove at
  6. drove away
  7. drove back
  8. drove down
  9. drove in
  10. drove into the ground
  11. drove it down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drove away (page history and authors); drive away (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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