Drive Back

Definition: Drive Back

Drive Back

Verb

1. Force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Drive Back

Crosswords: Drive Back

Now one ship, one crew, have vowed to drive back the night and rekindle the light of civilization (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)

Gonna drive back down where you once belonged (Golden Years; performing artist: DAVID BOWIE)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Travel

Korea

Some taxi drivers also charge higher fares to make up for revenue lost by having to drive back to Seoul without a passenger. (references)

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Albanian

zmbraps (beat off, check, fight off, foil, hold off, repel, repulse, turn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صد بقوة, ‏رد (answer, answer back, beat, counter, disallow, pay, pay back, put off, rebound, rebuff, rebut, rebuttal, rejoinder, render, repay, repayment, repercussion, reply, respond, response, retrieve, return, reverberate, reversion, riposte, spurn, turn away). (various references)

Bulgarian 

връщам се (come back, flow back, get back, go back, recur, regurgitate, revert, turn back), отблъсквам (avert, beat off, counter, estrange, fight off, foil, head off, jar, press back, push away, push back, put off, rebuff, reject, repulse, resist, spurn, stave off, throw back, thrust aside, turn off, ward), потискам (clamp, depress, domineer, flatten, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, quench, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references)

Czech

donutit k ústupu, zavézt zpátky, jet zpátky (head back). (various references)

French

retourner, repousser (drive away), rentrer en voiture, rentrer, refouler. (various references)

German

zurückfahren (back, come back, double back, go back, head back, move back, return, start back, to drive back). (various references)

Greek 

επιστρέφω (come back, get back, give back, rebound, recoil on, repossess, restore, return), απωθώ (push back, repel, repulse), οδηγώ πίσω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�"וף בחזק�". (various references)

Hungarian

visszaszorít (fight off, repel, to confine, to roll back), visszalök (to push back). (various references)

Manx

imman er ash (force back). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivedray ackbay.(various references)

Russian 

возвращаться (come back, cycle back, go back, recur, recurred, rejoin, retrace, revert back), оттеснять, оттеснить (drive away, hustle away), ехать обратно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti se (come back, get back, go back, move back, recur, relapse, return, revert), odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean). (various references)

Spanish

rechazar (ban, beat back, beat off, defeat, deny, deprecate, disallow, disavow, discard, disclaim, discourage, dismiss, disown, fend, fend off, fight off, hand off, hold off, negative, overrule, Parry, pass up, press back, push back, put aside, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, say no to, scout, set aside, Spike, spurn, stave off, stem, throw back, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn down, vote down, vote out, ward off, wave aside, wave away), hacer retroceder a la fuerza, arredrar (daunt, disjoin, disrupt, dissociate, remove, separate, unlink). (various references)

Ukrainian

повертатися (backtrack, bear, come again, fall back upon, retrace, return, revert, turn). (various references)

redegerat, redegerunt, redegit, redigam, redigant, redigar, redigas, redigatur, redigens, redigentes, redigentur, rediges, redigetur, redigit, redigite, redigo, refutare, reiciendum, reiecta, repulsa. (various references)

rabattre. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bricked, carbide, dieback.

-3 letters: abider, adverb, advice, arcked, backed, backer, bardic, barked, bicker, braced, braked, braved, cakier, caribe, caried, carked, carved, cervid, craved, dacker, daiker, debark, dicker, racked, ricked, varied, verbid.

-4 letters: abide, acerb, acred, acrid, aider, aired, aiver, arced, ardeb, areic, baked, baker, barde, bared, baric, beard, bider, biked, biker, brace, braid.