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Drive home

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To push something into position completely by force. transitive

    "He grunted as he drove each nail home."

  2. 2
    make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something wordnet
  3. 3
    To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration. figuratively, transitive

    "She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat."

  4. 4
    carry out or perform wordnet
  5. 5
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, home.

    "He decided not to drive home right away."

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