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drove back

drove back is the simple past 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 drove back

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

Words near drove back in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drove 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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