drave

Danube's Croatian feeder

Drave is an archaic or dialectal past tense of drive, now rarely encountered outside of older literature, religious texts, and some regional speech.

Where modern English uses drove, older translations of the Bible and historical writings often have drave: He drave them from the judgment seat.

The form survives in a few traditional dialects but sounds antiquated to most contemporary speakers.

biblical

expelled

Officially removed or banished

  • castPerformers, throw, or splint
  • demonsMalevolent supernatural beings
  • spiritsLiquor or apparitions

possessed · exorcism · smote · thrust · banished · scattered · pursued · fled · enemies · wrath

archaic-drove

herded

Drove animals together

  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
  • flockAnimals gathered together
  • sheepWoolly farm animal

livestock · herdsman · pasture · grazed · shepherded · goats · drover · mustered · corralled · stampede

nautical

sail

Ship's wind-catching fabric

  • vesselReceptacle for contents
  • shipSeagoing transport vessel
  • windAir current outdoors

storm · waves · mast · scudded · blown · gale · seafaring · boat · rigging · nautical

Opposites
motion/compulsion

dravedrew

Made marks depicting

pulled · attracted · summoned · fetched · gathered

control/agency

dravefreed

Released from confinement

liberated · released · let go · emancipated · loosed

Family

drive, driven, driver, driving, drove, driveway

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