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fordrove

fordrove is the simple past of fordrive.

Meaning of fordrive

Verb

fordrive (third-person singular simple present fordrives, present participle fordriving, simple past fordrove, past participle fordriven)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To drive away; expel.
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To drive about; drive here and there; drive astray.

Questions about fordrove

What is fordrove the simple past of?
Fordrove is the simple past of fordrive.

Words near fordrove in the dictionary

  1. fordried
  2. fordries
  3. fordrive
  4. fordriven
  5. fordriving
  6. fordrove
  7. fordry
  8. fordrying
  9. fords
  10. Fords Bridge
  11. Fordson

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fordrove (page history and authors); fordrive (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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