Drive and Offensive

Drive

Drive noun - A series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal.
Usage example: a fund-raising drive for the school's marching band

Offensive is a synonym for drive. In some cases you can use "Offensive" instead a noun "Drive".

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Offensive

Offensive noun - The act or action of setting upon with force or violence.

Drive is a synonym for offensive in attack topic. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a noun "Offensive".

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

high high drive high offensive
initial initial drive initial offensive
single single drive single offensive
strong strong drive strong offensive
Other adjectives: powerful, entire, big, little, main, new, major, final, desperate, larger, next, last.

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / Iran–Iraq War Iraq desperately sent its Republican Guard divisions and launched an air offensive to stem the Iranian offensive, which were successful but they could not drive the Iranians from al-Faw.
  • Video Game / Heroes And Generals Heroes And Generals contains examples of: Alternate History: Naturally, it is perfectly possible for the Germans to drive back both the American Operation Overlord and the Soviet eastern counter-offensive and win World War II.
  • The first overseas special in the US has two instances of this: First Instance The trio drive through Alabama with offensive slogans scrawled on their cars.
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