单词	drove
释义	drove1 verbdrove2 noun drovedrove1 /drəʊv $ droʊv/ verb the past tense of drive drove1 verbdrove2 noun drovedrove2 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINdrove2 Origin: Old English draf, from drifan ‘to drive’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And curious tourists there will be in droves. In spring Weddell seals have their pups on the ice floes offshore, and seabirds arrive in droves. Instead, they stayed away in droves. The hack drivers, who were present in droves, were a different breed. Their leaves fall in droves when the sun hits them in the morning, and then they settle on to white hoar frost. Which is why corporate executives are turning to speech coaches in droves. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorwhen a lot of people or things do something at the same time► in large numbers use this to say that a lot of people or things do something, or go or appear somewhere all at the same time: · During the dry season animals gather in large numbers around the water holes.· Young people are leaving the countryside and moving to the city in large numbers. ► in droves if people go somewhere in droves , they go in large numbers especially when this surprises you: · Nurses are leaving the profession in droves.· People came in droves to watch the fireworks display. ► in force/strength if people go somewhere in force or in strength a lot of them go together so that there is a large number of them in a particular place: · The police arrived in force to break up the crowd of demonstrators.· If Latino voters turn out in strength for the next election, results could be very different. ► by the hundreds/thousands if people do something by the hundreds or by the thousands very large groups of them are doing it at the same time: · People in the drought-stricken region are dying by the hundreds.· From all over the country, people came by the thousands to pay respect to their dead leader. ► thick and fast if messages, events etc come thick and fast , a lot of them suddenly come or happen in a short time: · At first no one was interested in the job but now applications are coming in thick and fast.· Rumours flew thick and fast that the company was going to be sold. ► be dying/dropping like flies to be dying or suddenly becoming ill in large numbers: · In the middle of the cholera epidemic, people were dropping like flies.· When Sam reached 70, it seemed his friends started dying like flies. 1droves [plural] crowds of peoplein droves Tourists come in droves to see the White House.2a group of animals that are being moved togetherdrove of a drove of cattle
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