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PRESS 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 "press 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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