To drive forcefully forward or to drive something to completion or exhaustion.
Combines 'for-' (completely, intensely) with 'drive.' This is one of the less common 'for-' verbs, appearing mainly in Middle English texts.
Many 'for-' verbs are extinct now, but 'fordrive' shows medieval English writers creating new intensified versions of verbs whenever they needed them. It's like how modern English creates 'overcook' or 'overwork' on the fly.
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