verb

1. To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

   “You drive nails into wood with a hammer.”

2. To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

   “My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.”

3. To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

Synonyms: move, operate, make, render, send, compel, force, oblige

adjective

1. That drives (a mechanism or process).

2. Of wind, rain, etc That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent