DRIVE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drive up mean? 

• DRIVE UP (verb)
  The verb DRIVE UP has 1 sense:

1. approach while driving

  Familiarity information: DRIVE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Approach while driving

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The truck entered the driveway and drove up towards the house

Hypernyms (to "drive up" is one way to...):

approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near (move towards)

Domain category:

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These cars won't drive up

 Context examples 

At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

No summons, however, arrived; and at last, on seeing a carriage drive up to the abbey, she was emboldened to descend and meet him under the protection of visitors.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In her earnest meditations on the contents of the letter, on the depravity of that mind which could dictate it, and probably, on the very different mind of a very different person, who had no other connection whatever with the affair than what her heart gave him with every thing that passed, Elinor forgot the immediate distress of her sister, forgot that she had three letters on her lap yet unread, and so entirely forgot how long she had been in the room, that when on hearing a carriage drive up to the door, she went to the window to see who could be coming so unreasonably early, she was all astonishment to perceive Mrs. Jennings's chariot, which she knew had not been ordered till one.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)