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

Meaning:

Carry out or perform

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

deliver; drive home

Context example:

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

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

drive home; press home; ram home

Context example:

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

 Context examples 

But it does seem so nice to have little suppers and bouquets, and go to parties, and drive home, and read and rest, and not work.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here are many that would be interested in your improvements, my dear Mr. Rushworth, and that would like to hear Mr. Crawford's opinion on the spot, and that might be of some small use to you with their opinions; and, for my own part, I have been long wishing to wait upon your good mother again; nothing but having no horses of my own could have made me so remiss; but now I could go and sit a few hours with Mrs. Rushworth, while the rest of you walked about and settled things, and then we could all return to a late dinner here, or dine at Sotherton, just as might be most agreeable to your mother, and have a pleasant drive home by moonlight.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The appearance of the servants looking out for them to give notice of the carriages was a joyful sight; and even the bustle of collecting and preparing to depart, and the solicitude of Mrs. Elton to have her carriage first, were gladly endured, in the prospect of the quiet drive home which was to close the very questionable enjoyments of this day of pleasure.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)