driven

Definition

  • adjective: very determined to succeed
  • adjective: having a compulsive or urgent quality
  • past participle of 'drive'
  • used in combination
  • synonyms: ambitious, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary

Examples

  • Thousands of people have been 'driven' from their homes. [=have been forced to leave their homes]

  • The family was 'driven out' of the neighborhood by rising real estate prices.

  • a steam-'driven' turbine [=a turbine that gets its power from steam]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) conditions among the Jews and gypsies, whose conditions I infinitely prefer to my own. I will not return to this house until divorce has driven you into the street. Meanwhile, my son will be sent to live with my eldest sister. No, Alexei, please. Please, leave me Serozha! (..)
    2012 Anna Karenina