"drive someone to the wall" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1882, Henry H. Alexander, Edward Denison Easton, Report of the Proceedings in the Case of the United States Vs. Charles J. Guiteau, page 497",
          "text": "Then we had some further conversation and I drove him to the wall, as I always did in conversation; that is, I rather attacked him; I did attack him.",
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          "ref": "1930, Hilda Orchardson Gray, The Life of Sir William Quiller Orchardson",
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        "To push someone to extremities."
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        "(dated) To push someone to extremities."
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