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DRIVE HOME

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas

Synonyms:

drive home; press home; ram home

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Carry out or perform

Example:

The boxer drove home a solid left

Synonyms:

deliver; drive home

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

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