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self-drove

self-drove is the simple past of self-drive.

Meaning of self-drive

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To drive autonomously; (of a motor vehicle) to drive itself without a human operator, by means of sensors and computer technology.
    • Motorists could legally allow their cars to “self-drive” on British motorways later this year – but only slowly, the government has announced.2021 April 27, Gwyn Topham, “‘Self-driving’ cars could get green light for use on UK motorways this year”, in The Guardian

Questions about self-drove

What is self-drove the simple past of?
Self-drove is the simple past of self-drive.

Words near self-drove in the dictionary

  1. self-driving cars
  2. self-driving taxi
  3. self-driving taxis
  4. self-driving truck
  5. self-driving trucks
  6. self-drove
  7. self-dry
  8. self-drying
  9. self-dual
  10. self-duality
  11. self-edit

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