What is the meaning of driven?

verb

• Operate or control a vehicle.
  • usage: "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck"
  • synonyms: drive
• Travel or be transported in a vehicle.
  • usage: "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"
  • synonyms: drive, motor
• Cause someone or something to move by driving.
  • usage: "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"
  • synonyms: drive
• Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
  • usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
  • synonyms: force, drive, ram
• To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.
  • usage: "She is driven by her passion"
  • synonyms: drive
• Cause to move back by force or influence.
  • usage: "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
  • synonyms: repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back
• Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.
  • usage: "She finally drove him to change jobs"
  • synonyms: drive
• Push, propel, or press with force.
  • usage: "Drive a nail into the wall"
  • synonyms: drive
• Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force.
  • usage: "drive the ball far out into the field"
  • synonyms: drive
• Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.
  • usage: "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
  • synonyms: tug, labor, labour, push, drive
• Move into a desired direction of discourse.
  • usage: "What are you driving at"
  • synonyms: drive, get, aim
• Have certain properties when driven.
  • usage: "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well"
  • synonyms: drive, ride
• Work as a driver.
  • usage: "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark"
  • synonyms: drive
• Move by being propelled by a force.
  • usage: "The car drove around the corner"
  • synonyms: drive
• Urge forward.
  • usage: "drive the cows into the barn"
  • synonyms: drive
• Proceed along in a vehicle.
  • usage: "We drive the turnpike to work"
  • synonyms: drive, take
• Strike with a driver, as in teeing off.
  • usage: "drive a golf ball"
  • synonyms: drive
• Hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally.
  • usage: "drive a ball"
  • synonyms: drive
• Excavate horizontally.
  • usage: "drive a tunnel"
  • synonyms: drive
• Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.
  • usage: "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer"
  • synonyms: drive
• Hunting: search for game.
  • usage: "drive the forest"
  • synonyms: drive
• Hunting: chase from cover into more open ground.
  • usage: "drive the game"
  • synonyms: drive

adjective

• Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
  • usage: "mobs goaded by blind hatred"
  • synonyms: goaded
• Urged or forced to action through moral pressure.
  • usage: "felt impelled to take a stand against the issue"
  • synonyms: impelled
• Strongly motivated to succeed.
  • synonyms: compulsive, determined