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DRAVE

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

DRAVE is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

DRAVE root DRIVE

Word family

DRIVE 2 DRIVES-s 3 DRIVING 5 DROVE 2 DRIVEN-n 3
verb
  1. ergativetransitiveTo operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
    • The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over.
    • This SUV drives insanely smoothly—it's like it knows what I want before I do.
  2. intransitiveTo travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
    • I drive to work every day.
  3. transitiveTo convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
    • My cousin drove me to the airport.
  4. slangtransitiveTo operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
    • drive a 737
  5. intransitivetransitiveTo direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  6. transitive(especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
    • to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field
  7. transitive(especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
    • The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.
    • We'll drive the enemy from these lands once and for all.
  8. transitiveTo 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 any hammer; it's not as strenuous as driving a tunnel through the rock.
  9. transitiveTo cause (a mechanism) to operate.
    • The pistons drive the crankshaft.
  10. intransitiveTo hit the ball with a drive.
  11. transitiveTo separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
  12. transitiveTo displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
  13. transitiveTo provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
    • My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
  14. transitiveTo motivate; to provide an incentive for.
    • What drives a person to run a marathon?
  15. transitiveTo compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
    • Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
  16. transitiveTo cause to become.
    • This constant complaining is going to drive me insane.
    • You are driving me crazy!
  17. transitiveTo motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
    • Frothing at the mouth and threatening expulsion, Coach relentlessly drove the team to more laps of the pitch.
  18. transitiveTo urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
    • The negotiations were driven to completion minutes before the final deadline.
    • If you drive yourself so much, you'll end up having a breakdown.
  19. intransitiveTo move forcefully.
  20. intransitiveTo be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
  21. transitiveTo carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  22. transitiveTo clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  23. To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  24. To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
  25. obsoleteTo distrain for rent.
  26. To be the dominant party in a sex act.
noun
  1. countableuncountablePlanned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
    • Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
  2. countableuncountableViolent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  3. broadlycountableuncountableAn act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
  4. broadlycountableuncountableAn act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
  5. countableuncountableA sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
    • Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
  6. countableuncountableA mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
    • steam drive, nuclear drive, chain drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive
    • Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
  7. countableuncountableThe location of the steering wheel used to control a vehicle.
    • left-hand drive, right-hand drive
  8. countableuncountableThe gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
    • Normally you should be in drive, although you can select a lower gear such as 2 or 1 for certain conditions, such as prolonged downhill stretches.
  9. countableuncountableAn act of piloting or riding within a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
    • The drive this morning was awful due to snow and ice.
  10. countableuncountableA trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
    • It was a long drive to Santa Fe.
  11. countableuncountableThe act of driving a car with no destination in mind, generally to see the scenery, be alone with one's thoughts or to spend time with a partner.
    • We like to go for a drive on Sunday afternoons.
  12. countabledateduncountableA place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  13. countableuncountableA driveway.
    • The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
  14. capitalizedcountableuncountableA type of public roadway.
    • Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
  15. countableuncountableDesire or interest.
  16. countableuncountableAn apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
  17. countableuncountableA mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
  18. countableuncountableThe state of being under pressure, stressed and hurried.
    • I suffered under the intense drive of my new job.
  19. countableuncountableA stroke made with a driver.
  20. countableuncountableA ball struck in a flat trajectory.
    • a long drive
  21. countableuncountableA type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
  22. countableuncountableA straight level shot or pass.
  23. countableuncountableAn offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
  24. countableuncountableA charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
    • a fund-raising drive
    • a whist drive
    • a beetle drive
  25. countableuncountableA campaign aimed at selling or promoting (something).
    • vaccination drive
  26. countableuncountableAn impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
  27. countableuncountableA collection of objects that are driven.
  28. countableuncountableA mass of logs to be floated down a river or the act of moving them thusly.
  29. UKcountableslanguncountableFriendly term of address for a bus driver.