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test driven

test driven is the past participle of test drive.

Meaning of test drive

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To take a motor vehicle on the road to assess its quality before purchase.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To establish a preliminary assessment of something through its use.
    Synonyms:
    test-ride

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Questions about test driven

What is test driven the past participle of?
Test driven is the past participle of test drive.

Words near test driven in the dictionary

  1. test depth
  2. test depths
  3. test double
  4. test doubles
  5. test drive
  6. test driven
  7. test drives
  8. test driving
  9. test drove
  10. test dummy
  11. test firing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: test driven (page history and authors); test 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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