"withdrive" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: withdrives [present, singular, third-person], withdriving [participle, present], withdrove [past], withdriven [participle, past]
Etymology: From Middle English *withdriven, from Old English wiþdrīfan (“to repel”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþidrīban (“to drive back”), equivalent to with- + drive. Cognate with Old Frisian withdrīva (“to restore”). Compare also Old High German widartrīban (“to drive back, refute”), whence archaic German widertreiben (“to drive back, prevent, thwart”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*withdriven}} Middle English *withdriven, {{inh|en|ang|wiþdrīfan|t=to repel}} Old English wiþdrīfan (“to repel”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*wiþidrīban|t=to drive back}} Proto-West Germanic *wiþidrīban (“to drive back”), {{pre|en|with|drive}} with- + drive, {{cog|ofs|withdrīva|t=to restore}} Old Frisian withdrīva (“to restore”), {{cog|goh|widartrīban|t=to drive back, refute}} Old High German widartrīban (“to drive back, refute”), {{cog|de|widertreiben|t=to drive back, prevent, thwart}} German widertreiben (“to drive back, prevent, thwart”) Head templates: {{en-verb|withdrives|withdriving|withdrove|withdriven}} withdrive (third-person singular simple present withdrives, present participle withdriving, simple past withdrove, past participle withdriven)
  1. (transitive, nonstandard, rare) To drive away, repel. Tags: nonstandard, rare, transitive

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1527, L. Andrewe tr. H. von Braunschweig Vertuose Bk. Distyllacyon ii. ii. sig. Aij/2",
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          "text": "[…] would result in a reduction in the numbers of this vector of disease, proportionate to the thoroughness and persistence with which the procedures were carried out. Centuries ago wise men taught, that to 'withdrive' THE GREAT FAMINE.",
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          "ref": "1976, Robert Dudley Edwards, Thomas Desmond Williams, The great famine: studies in Irish history, 1845-52:",
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