Drive and Menace

Drive

Drive verb - To cause (a person) to give in to pressure.

Usage example: the corrupt governor was driven out of office

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Menace and drive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Menace" instead a verb "Drive".

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Menace verb - To place in danger.

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Drive and menace are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a verb "Menace".

Nearby Words: menacing, menaced

similar	similar drive	similar menace
short	short drive	short menace
single	single drive	single menace
powerful	powerful drive	powerful menace
Other adjectives: active, actual, constant, big, little, main, personal, ancient, new, major, unstoppable.

humanity	drive humanity	menace humanity
character	drive character	menace character
people	drive people	menace people
family	drive family	menace family
Other words: someone, time, characters, player, everyone, humans, times, players, victims.

Menace II Society: The main character is killed in a drive-by shooting at the end.

Source: Gangland Drive-By
Throw in his reckless incompetence and inability to drive or park, and he's probably as big a menace as any of the villains.

Source: Film / The Naked Gun
Much, much worse are the Florans, a race of tribalistic, flesh-eating Plant Aliens who somehow managed to reverse-engineer a crashed avian spaceship and subsequently became a menace to the galaxy, going so far as to drive the Hylotl from their own homeworld.

Source: Low Culture, High Tech

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