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driven

/ˈdɹɪvn̩/ adjective B1
  1. Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals. · highly driven· driven person
  2. Formed into snowdrifts by wind. (of snow)
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They had driven over the crest of a hill.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 26 · C1
They waited in the hope of seeing it enter the harbor, but as the object on which they looked was driven nearer to shore by the wind, they found that it could at the most be a small boat, and not a ship.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 42 · B2
“Ah,” said the Marquise de Saint-Méran, a woman with a stern, forbidding eye, though still noble and distinguished in appearance, despite her fifty years—“ah, these revolutionists, who have driven us from those very possessions they afterwards purchased for a mere trifle during the Reign of Terror, would be compelled to own, were they here, that all true devotion was on our side, since we were content to follow the fortunes of a falling monarch, while they, on the contrary, made their fortune by worshipping the rising sun; yes, yes, they could not help admitting that the king, for whom we sacrificed rank, wealth, and station was truly our ‘Louis the well-beloved,’ while their wretched usurper has been, and ever will be, to them their evil genius, their ‘Napoleon the accursed.’ Am I not right, Villefort?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 42 · C1
“I had already determined in my own mind that the man who had walked into the house with Drebber, was none other than the man who had driven the cab.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 84 · B2

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