drive
/dɹaɪv//dɹaɪv//dɹaɪv/noun
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Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Example: Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
Example: Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
verb
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To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
Example: You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
Example: My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
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.