drove

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++drove1 /drəʊv $ droʊv/ verb  x-refthe past tense of drive drive的过去式drove2 noun [countable]  1  droves [plural]CROWD crowds of people 人群，成群的人in droves Tourists come in droves to see the White House. 游客成群结队前来参观白宫。2  HBAa group of animals that are being moved together 〔被驱赶到一起的〕畜群drove of a drove of cattle 牛群

Examples from the Corpus

drove• In spring Weddell seals have their pups on the ice floes offshore, and seabirds arrive in droves.• Instead, they stayed away in droves.• And curious tourists there will be in droves.• Which is why corporate executives are turning to speech coaches in droves.• Their leaves fall in droves when the sun hits them in the morning, and then they settle on to white hoar frost.• The hack drivers, who were present in droves, were a different breed.Origin drove2 Old English draf, from drifan “to drive”

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Corpus tense the drive past of

drove

I

drove¹ /drəʊv $ droʊv/
the past tense of drive

II

drove² noun [countable]1. droves [plural] crowds of people
    in droves
    Tourists come in droves to see the White House.
2. a group of animals that are being moved together
    drove of
    a drove of cattle

droveBrE /drəʊv/ 🔊NAmE /droʊv/ 🔊 noun [usually plural] a large number of people or animals, often moving or doing sth as a group （移动的）人群，畜群◆droves of tourists成群的游客◆People were leaving the countryside in droves to look for work in the cities. 一批一批的人离开农村到城里找工作。🔊🔊  ➡  see also drive verb