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drove off

drove off is the simple past 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 drove off

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

Words near drove off in the dictionary

  1. drove back
  2. drove down
  3. drove in
  4. drove into the ground
  5. drove it down
  6. drove off
  7. drove one's pigs to market
  8. drove out
  9. drove road
  10. drove roads
  11. drove someone crazy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drove 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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