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# driven

«driven» in Mova's school dictionary: **a form of drive: to make a car, bus or train move and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (drive, drives, drove, driven, driving); adjective (driven = very keen to succeed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Driven is a form of drive: to make a car, bus or train move and steer it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#m1)

2) Driven means taken somewhere in a car: «she was driven to school». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#m2)

3) Driven means pushed or moved by something: «a wind-driven mill». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#m3)

4) A driven person works very hard to reach a goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#m4)

5) Forced into a state, as when grief drives someone mad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

distance travelled by car: miles driven, speed × time; in science: machines driven by electricity, wind or water; in everyday life and safety: wear a seat belt whenever you are driven anywhere; in stories: a driven hero who never gives up

### examples

- He has driven 120 miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x1)
- The car is driven 40 miles a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x2)
- How far had she driven after 3 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x3)
- They have driven half the way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x4)
- We were driven to the airport by Uncle Joe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x5)
- The old mill was driven by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x6)
- She is a driven player who trains every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x7)
- Have you ever driven a go-kart? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/#x8)

### note

Distance done; distance left = whole trip − driven. Irregular: drive, drove, (has) driven. Not «drived». Use «driven» after «has/have/had» or «was/were».

### In the corpora

- [It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/13/)
- [I should like to be able to tell my friends that once I had driven a motor-car!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/17/)
- [Wood gives off gases that burn with flames; charcoal has already had its gases driven off, so it glows instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/15/)
- [It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/2/)
- [Mechanical clocks spread in Europe from about 1300, and China built a great water-driven clock tower in the 1090s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/62-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «driven» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/driven/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.