Todrive

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To scatter. ambitransitive, obsolete

    "Swift was the flight todriven; The Hord lord singed houses."

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dispersesparse

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"Swift was the flight todriven; The Hord lord singed houses."

Etymology

From Middle English todriven, from Old English tōdrīfan (“to drive away, repel”), from Proto-Germanic *tōdrībaną (“to drive apart”), equivalent to to- + drive. Cognate with Old Frisian todrīva, Middle High German zetrīben (“to drive asunder”).

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