Definitions
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drove .
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- verb transitive, obsolete To trouble; afflict; make anxious.
Etymologies
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From Middle English dreven (also droven), from Old English drēfan, *drōfian ("to trouble, vex, agitate, disturb the mind of"), from Proto-Germanic *drōbijanan (“to disturb, excite, make muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dherebh-, *dhrebh- (“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”). Cognate with Low German dröven, Dutch droeven ("to be sad, grieve"), German trüben ("to dull, dim, cloud, tarnish, trouble"), Swedish bedröva ("to grieve, sadden, distress").
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Examples
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An 'weäve do dreve weäve in the dark-water'd pon', --
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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The republic owes its origin to a mixture of nations, that lived at first without religion, laws, faith, or honesty, but whom necessity dreve into this kind of govern - ment.
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