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driven

d ri vuhn

  • v  operate or control a vehicle
  • v  travel or be transported in a vehicle
  • v  cause someone or something to move by driving
  • v  force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
  • v  to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
    She is driven by her passion
  • v  cause to move back by force or influence
  • v  compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
  • v  push, propel, or press with force
  • v  cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
  • v  strive and make an effort to reach a goal
  • v  move into a desired direction of discourse
  • v  have certain properties when driven
  • v  work as a driver
  • v  move by being propelled by a force
  • v  urge forward
  • v  proceed along in a vehicle
  • v  strike with a driver, as in teeing off
  • v  hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
  • v  excavate horizontally
  • v  cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
  • v  hunting: search for game
  • v  hunting: chase from cover into more open ground
  • s  compelled forcibly by an outside agency
  • s  urged or forced to action through moral pressure
  • s  strongly motivated to succeed

  • Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces that the recession is .
  • Cutting Edge Audio flowers, a piston-driven watch and CD skin .
  • The best-selling megapastor wants to turn the genocide site into the first purpose-driven nation.
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  • Barack Obama in San Jose Mercury News
    Sen. Barack Obama accused Clinton of "slash-and-burn, say-anything, do-anything special interest-driven politics."
  • Julia Gillard in Voice of America
    I love this country and I was not going to sit idly by and watch an incoming opposition cut education, cut health and smash rights at work,she said. "My values and my beliefs have driven me to step forward to take this position as prime...
  • Robert Zoellick in International Herald Tribune
    The poorest and must vulnerable groups risk the most serious - and in some cases, permanent - damage,Zoellick said. "One hundred million people have already been driven into poverty this year and that number will grow."

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