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drive has 27 distinct synonyms spread across 13 of its 34 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
operate or control a vehicle
“drive a car or bus”
cause someone or something to move by driving
“She drove me to school every day”
to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
“She is driven by her passion”
compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
“She finally drove him to change jobs”
push, propel, or press with force
“Drive a nail into the wall”
cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
“drive the ball far out into the field”
work as a driver
“He drives a bread truck”
strike with a driver, as in teeing off
“drive a golf ball”
hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
“drive a ball”
excavate horizontally
“drive a tunnel”
cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
“The amplifier drives the tube”
(hunting) search for game
“drive the forest”
(hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
“drive the game”
the act of applying force to propel something
“after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off”
a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
“a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for drive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
“he supported populist campaigns”
a road leading up to a private house
“they parked in the driveway”
the trait of being highly motivated
“his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers”
hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
“he sliced his drive out of bounds”
the act of driving a herd of animals overland
a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)