What does drive back mean?

drive back means "force or drive back".

What is another word for drive back?

Close synonyms include repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drive back a common word?

drive back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

drive back — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
force or drive back
“repel the attacker”
“fight off the onslaught”
“rebuff the attack”
Synonymsrepel repulse fight off rebuff
Broaderfight

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What does drive back mean?: drive back means "force or drive back".

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