withdrive

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English *withdriven, from Old English wiþdrīfan (“to repel”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþidrīban (“to drive back”), equivalent to with- +‎ drive. Cognate with Old Frisian withdrīva (“to restore”). Compare also Old High German widartrīban (“to drive back, refute”), whence archaic German widertreiben (“to drive back, prevent, thwart”). === Verb === withdrive (third-person singular simple present withdrives, present participle withdriving, simple past withdrove, past participle withdriven) (transitive, nonstandard, rare) To drive away, repel. 1527, L. Andrewe tr. H. von Braunschweig Vertuose Bk. Distyllacyon ii. ii. sig. Aij/2: The same [Sorell] water withdryueth impetigines.