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The correct spelling is drove.
How to pronounce drove
/dɹəʊv/
nounIPA: /dɹəʊv/
Say it like: Dro-ve
The correct spelling is drove. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. For example: "You drive nails into wood with a hammer."
Usage Examples
“You drive nails into wood with a hammer.”
“My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.”
“to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- 2.(usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
- 3.(collective) A group of hares.
- 4.A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
- 5.A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
verb
- 1.To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- 2.To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- 3.To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- 4.To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- 5.(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
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