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drive home
Overview of verb drive-home
The verb drive home has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. deliver, drive home -- (carry out or perform; "deliver an attack", "deliver a blow"; "The boxer drove home a solid left")
2. drive home, ram home, press home -- (make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something; "drive home a point or an argument"; "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas")
Antonyms of verb drive-home
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb drive-home
2 senses of drive home
Sense 1
deliver, drive home
=> give
Sense 2
drive home, ram home, press home
=> stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> express, show, evince
=> convey, impart
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb drive-home
1 of 2 senses of drive home
Sense 1
deliver, drive home
=> land
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb drive-home
2 senses of drive home
Sense 1
deliver, drive home
=> give
Sense 2
drive home, ram home, press home
=> stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
'Cause To' of verb drive-home
Derived Forms of verb drive-home
Domain of verb drive-home
Domain Terms of verb drive-home
Familiarity of verb drive-home
drive home used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb drive-home
2 senses of drive home
Sense 1
deliver, drive home
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 2
drive home, ram home, press home
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb drive-home
2 senses of drive home
Sense 1
deliver, drive home
> give
=> infect
=> award, grant
=> deliver, drive home
Sense 2
drive home, ram home, press home
> stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> background, play down, downplay
=> bring out, set off
=> re-emphasise, re-emphasize
=> bear down
=> topicalize
=> point up
=> drive home, ram home, press home
=> underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasise
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb drive-home
Sense 1
deliver, drive home
=> give
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Sense 2
drive home, ram home, press home
=> stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
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