DRIVE BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drive back mean? 

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

1. force or drive back

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVE BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force or drive back

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

drive back; fight off; rebuff; repel; repulse

Context example:

rebuff the attack

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

defend; fight; fight back; fight down; oppose (fight against or resist strongly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I’d drive back, but the Prince is expecting us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having done that, we may drive back to our luncheon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such was the information of the first five minutes; the second unfolded thus much in detail—that they had driven directly to the York Hotel, ate some soup, and bespoke an early dinner, walked down to the pump-room, tasted the water, and laid out some shillings in purses and spars; thence adjourned to eat ice at a pastry-cook's, and hurrying back to the hotel, swallowed their dinner in haste, to prevent being in the dark; and then had a delightful drive back, only the moon was not up, and it rained a little, and Mr. Morland's horse was so tired he could hardly get it along.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)