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withdrove

withdrove is the simple past of withdrive.

Meaning of withdrive

Verb

withdrive (third-person singular simple present withdrives, present participle withdriving, simple past withdrove, past participle withdriven)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To drive away, repel.
    • The same [Sorell] water withdryueth impetigines.1527, L. Andrewe tr. H. von Braunschweig Vertuose Bk. Distyllacyon ii. ii. sig. Aij/2

Questions about withdrove

What is withdrove the simple past of?
Withdrove is the simple past of withdrive.

Words near withdrove in the dictionary

  1. withdrewst
  2. withdrive
  3. withdriven
  4. withdrives
  5. withdriving
  6. withdrove
  7. withe
  8. withed
  9. Withee
  10. Withees
  11. witheld

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Adapted from Wiktionary: withdrove (page history and authors); withdrive (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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