Definition of Drive home

1. Verb. Carry out or perform. "The boxer drove home a solid left"

Exact synonyms: Deliver
Generic synonyms: Give
Specialized synonyms: Land

2. Verb. Make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something. "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas"
Exact synonyms: Press Home, Ram Home
Generic synonyms: Accent, Accentuate, Emphasise, Emphasize, Punctuate, Stress

Definition of Drive home

1. Verb. (transitive) To push to or into a target. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drive Home

drive-in
drive-in movie
drive-ins
drive-off
drive-through
drive-thru
drive-time
drive-volley
drive Irish tandem
drive around
drive at
drive away
drive back
drive by shooting
drive by shootings
drive home (current term)
drive in
drive line
drive line system
drive off
drive offs
drive out
drive someone crazy
drive someone up the wall
drive the porcelain bus
drive time
drive times
drive truck
drive up
drive wheel

Literary usage of Drive home

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of by John Cameron (1865)
"... Beauty of Scenery — Breakfast — Drive to Town—Business—Tiffin—Fives Court—The Band—drive home—Dinner—Its substantial Nature —After-dinner Amusements. ..."

2. Fighting in Flanders by Edward Alexander Powell (1914)
"... pictures that can be painted, than all the books that can be written, to drive home a realization of what is meant by that dreadful thing called War. ..."

3. The Life and Travels of General Grant by Joel Tyler Headley (1879)
"... OF FARE—FIREWORKS AND ILLUMINATION—SINGING GIRLS—THE SCENERY—drive home. GENERAL GRANT had planned a trip to the Great Wall of China while in Pekin, ..."

4. Sporting Adventures in the New World, Or, Days and Nights of Moose-hunting by Campbell Hardy (1855)
"... Bull-Frog—A Commotion in the Pond—Return to Halifax—The drive home. IT was on one of those delicious mornings, about the middle of June, when the summer ..."

5. A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1913)
"As it was too late for me to take the long drive home alone I went into Woodstock and spent the night with my brother. Prince George Winyah. ..."

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