Drive and Overdrive

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Drive verb - To urge, push, or force onward.

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

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Overdrive verb - Drive or work too hard.

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Drive and overdrive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a verb "Overdrive".

Nearby Words: overdriven, overdriving

Every car will, in fact, be slower in an overdrive gear than in direct drive or underdrive as the engine will be at a mechanical disadvantage and have to work harder to achieve the same acceleration.

Source: Over Drive
Faster-Than-Light Travel: FTL travel is achieved using the "overdrive", a form of warp drive which creates a cocoon of Subspace or Hyperspace around the ship that allows it to travel at a large multiple of the speed of light (approximately one light year per hour).

Source: Literature / Med Ship
Attack of the Killer Whatever - While it doesn't drive itself like in Maximum Overdrive the truck still manages to cause the deaths of three people.

Source: Film / Road Train

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