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drovest

drovest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of drive.

Meaning of drive

Verb

drive (third-person singular simple present drives, present participle driving, simple past drove or (archaic) drave or (dialectal) driv, past participle driven or (dialectal) druv or (dialectal) drove)

  1. (ergative, transitive) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
    • The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over.
    Synonyms:
    ride
  2. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
    • I drive to work every day.
    Synonyms:
    motorvate
  3. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
    • My cousin drove me to the airport.
    Synonyms:
    take
  4. (slang, transitive) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
    • drive a 737
    Synonyms:
    fly, pilot
  5. (intransitive, transitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
    • There is a litter ready; lay him in’t
      And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
      Both welcome and protection.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  6. (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
    • to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field
    Synonyms:
    drove, goad, herd

See all 55 meanings of drive

Origin of drovest

drove + -est

Questions about drovest

What is drovest the second-person singular simple past indicative of?
Drovest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of drive.

Words near drovest in the dictionary

  1. drovers
  2. drovers' road
  3. drovers' roads
  4. drovers' way
  5. droves
  6. drovest
  7. droveway
  8. droveways
  9. droving
  10. drow
  11. drown

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