Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To drive away; drive about; drive here and there.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To drive about; to drive here and there.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To drive away; expel.
  • verb transitive To drive about; drive here and there; drive astray.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English fordriven, from Old English fordrīfan ("to drive, sweep away, drive on, impel, compel, drive away, expel, overtax"), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *drībanan (“to drive”), equivalent to for- +‎ drive. Cognate with West Frisian fordriuwe, ferdriuwe ("to expel"), Dutch verdrijven ("to expel"), Low German verdriben ("to drive away"), German vertreiben ("to expel, drive out, banish"), Danish fordrive ("to oust, expel"), Swedish fördriva ("to drive away, drive out, banish"). More at for-, drive.

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Examples

  • PlayStation pleasure brain circuitry forchemical fixes fordrive forshivers and chills ofsee also drugs, recreationalpleasure principle post-traumatic stress disorder prairie voles pregnancy primal scream therapy protein synthesis

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  • PlayStation pleasure brain circuitry forchemical fixes fordrive forshivers and chills ofsee also drugs, recreationalpleasure principle post-traumatic stress disorder prairie voles pregnancy primal scream therapy protein synthesis

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • PlayStation pleasure brain circuitry forchemical fixes fordrive forshivers and chills ofsee also drugs, recreationalpleasure principle post-traumatic stress disorder prairie voles pregnancy primal scream therapy protein synthesis

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • PlayStation pleasure brain circuitry forchemical fixes fordrive forshivers and chills ofsee also drugs, recreationalpleasure principle post-traumatic stress disorder prairie voles pregnancy primal scream therapy protein synthesis

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

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