fordrive

词形变化

fordriven fordrives 三单 fordriving fordrove fordriving 现在分词 fordrove 过去式 fordriven 过去式 fordriven 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To drive away; expel.

    英国 方言 及物
  2. 2.

    To drive about; drive here and there; drive astray.

    英国 方言 及物

词源

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”).

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