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Definition of derive verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

derive

verb
 
/dɪˈraɪv/
 
/dɪˈraɪv/
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘draw a fluid through or into a channel’): from Old French deriver or Latin derivare, from de- ‘down, away’ + rivus ‘brook, stream’.
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they derive
 
/dɪˈraɪv/
 
/dɪˈraɪv/
he / she / it derives
 
/dɪˈraɪvz/
 
/dɪˈraɪvz/
past simple derived
 
/dɪˈraɪvd/
 
/dɪˈraɪvd/
past participle derived
 
/dɪˈraɪvd/
 
/dɪˈraɪvd/
-ing form deriving
 
/dɪˈraɪvɪŋ/
 
/dɪˈraɪvɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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perfectly
adverb
 
 
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