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Drove vs. Driven — What's the Difference?

Drove vs. Driven — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Drove and Driven

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Drove

Past tense of drive.

Driven

Past participle of drive.

Drove

A flock or herd being driven in a body.

Driven

Piled up or carried along by a current
Driven snow.

Drove

Often droves A large mass of people moving or acting as a body
People moving through the streets in droves.
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Driven

Motivated by or having a compulsive quality or need
A driven person.

Drove

A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.

Driven

Caused, sustained, or stimulated
An export-driven economic recovery.

Drove

A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.

Driven

Powered, operated, or controlled
A piston-driven airplane.
A menu-driven software program.

Drove

A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

Driven

Inflection of drive

Drove

A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

Driven

Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.

Drove

(collective) A group of hares.

Driven

Formed into snowdrifts by wind.

Drove

A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.

Driven

Of Drive. Also adj.

Drove

A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

Driven

Compelled forcibly by an outside agency;
Mobs goaded by blind hatred

Drove

A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.

Driven

Urged or forced to action through moral pressure;
Felt impelled to take a stand against the issue

Drove

The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Driven

Strongly motivated to succeed

Drove

To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

Drove

(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

Drove

Of Drive.

Drove

A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.

Drove

Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.

Drove

A crowd of people in motion.
Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass.

Drove

A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

Drove

A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

Drove

A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; - called also drove chisel.

Drove

To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.

Drove

To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.

Drove

A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

Drove

A moving crowd

Drove

A stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone

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