different between drave vs dreve

English

Verb

drave

1. (archaic) simple past tense of drive
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 12 p. 196[1]:

     His kingly courage quell: but from his short retyre,

     His reinforced troupes (newe forg’d with sprightly fire)

     Before them drave the Dane, and made the Britaine runne

     (Whom he by liberall wage here to his ayde had wonne)

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:

     I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.

Anagrams

• Adver., Radev, ervad, raved

Scots

Noun

drave (plural draves)

1. a drove

Verb

drave

1. past tense of drive

Anagrams

• raved

English

Alternative forms

• drove

Etymology

From Middle English dreven (also droven), from Old English dr?fan, *dr?fian (“to trouble, vex, agitate, disturb the mind of”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?bijan? (“to disturb, excite, make muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reb?- (“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”). Cognate with Low German dröven, Dutch droeven (“to be sad, grieve”), German trüben (“to dull, dim, cloud, tarnish, trouble”), Swedish bedröva (“to grieve, sadden, distress”). Related to droff.

Verb

dreve (third-person singular simple present dreves, present participle dreving, simple past and past participle dreved)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To trouble; afflict; make anxious.

Anagrams

• Dever, Verde

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?v?

Verb

dreve

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of drijven

Anagrams

• veder, verde, vrede

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dreve]

Noun

dreve n

1. locative singular of drevo