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test drove

test drove is the simple past 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 drove

What is test drove the simple past of?
Test drove is the simple past of test drive.

Words near test drove in the dictionary

  1. test doubles
  2. test drive
  3. test driven
  4. test drives
  5. test driving
  6. test drove
  7. test dummy
  8. test firing
  9. test firings
  10. test flight
  11. test flights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: test drove (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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