English Explanatory Dictionary

fordrive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To drive away; expel.
  2. To drive about; drive here and there; drive astray.

Word forms

fordrive fordrives fordriving fordrove fordriven

Etymology

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

Related words

drive foredrive
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