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DRIVE HOME

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Dictionary entry overview: What does drive home mean?

• DRIVE HOME (verb)
The verb DRIVE HOME has 2 senses:

1. carry out or perform
2. make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something

Familiarity information: DRIVE HOME used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DRIVE HOME (verb)

Sense 1

drive home ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Carry out or perform

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

drive home; deliver

Context examples:

deliver an attack / deliver a blow / The boxer drove home a solid left

Hypernyms (to "drive home" is one way to...):

give (cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "drive home"):

land (deliver (a blow))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 2

drive home ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

press home; ram home; drive home

Context examples:

drive home a point or an argument / I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas

Hypernyms (to "drive home" is one way to...):

accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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