Drove vs. Driven — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Drove and Driven
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Definitions
Drove
Past tense of drive.
Driven
Past participle of drive.
Drove
A flock or herd being driven in a body.
Driven
Piled up or carried along by a current
Driven snow.
Drove
Often droves A large mass of people moving or acting as a body
People moving through the streets in droves.
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Driven
Motivated by or having a compulsive quality or need
A driven person.
Drove
A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.
Driven
Caused, sustained, or stimulated
An export-driven economic recovery.
Drove
A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.
Driven
Powered, operated, or controlled
A piston-driven airplane.
A menu-driven software program.
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Drove
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
Driven
Inflection of drive
Drove
A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
Driven
Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
Drove
(collective) A group of hares.
Driven
Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
Drove
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
Driven
Of Drive. Also adj.
Drove
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Driven
Compelled forcibly by an outside agency;
Mobs goaded by blind hatred
Drove
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
Driven
Urged or forced to action through moral pressure;
Felt impelled to take a stand against the issue
Drove
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
Driven
Strongly motivated to succeed
Drove
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
Drove
(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
Drove
Of Drive.
Drove
A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
Drove
Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
Drove
A crowd of people in motion.
Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass.
Drove
A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Drove
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Drove
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; - called also drove chisel.
Drove
To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
Drove
To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
Drove
A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
Drove
A moving crowd
Drove
A stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
