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# drove

«drove» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past of drive: yesterday he drove the car** — 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); noun (a drove, droves)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Drove is the past of drive: yesterday he drove the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#m1)

2) A drove is a group of animals, like cattle or sheep, moving together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#m2)

3) «In droves» means in very large numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: travel already done, with miles or kilometers and hours (add the legs, or speed × time); history: drovers moved droves of cattle to market; everyday life: people came in droves to the fair

### examples

- He drove 150 miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x1)
- She drove for 3 hours at 50 miles an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x2)
- They drove to the lake and back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x3)
- How far did they drive in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x4)
- Grandpa drove us to the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x5)
- People came in droves to see the parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x6)
- A drove of cattle crossed the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x7)
- One day, he drove to the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drove/#x8)

### note

Past travel: add the legs, or speed × time. Trap: «drove 40 miles more than yesterday» means today = yesterday + 40. «Drove» is the past; «driven» goes with has or had.

### In the corpora

- [Dad had to leave his shift halfway, lost half a day's pay, and drove Jake home without saying a word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/1/)
- [«The other one.» Freya was really at the park after dark, and Mum drove there and found her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/9/)
- [And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.387/)
- [And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.43/)
- [And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.788/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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