Drive Home

Definition: Drive Home

Drive Home

Verb

1. Carry out or perform; "deliver an attack", "deliver a blow"; The boxer drove home a solid left".

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Drive Home

Belief

Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.

Completion

Do thoroughly, not do by halves,go the whole hog; drive home; be in at the death; (persevere) a; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the bill.

Crosswords: Drive Home

And later on, on the drive home (What's My Age Again?; performing artist: Blink-182)

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Books

• The Long Drive Home (Anhinga Poetry Prize Series) (reference)

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Mrs. Olie Thompson about to drive home from the spring with barrels full of water. Williams County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Posters displayed on this large, well-lighted bulletin board drive home the urgency of more and better production to employees of the Columbia Steel Company, Provo, Utah. Some of the posters were supplied by war production drive headquarters, some by the. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "drive home": drive home to. Additional references.

German

einschlagen (adopt, bang in, bash down, bash in, beat in, catch on, cover, drive in, drive into, enter on, envelop, fell, follow, hammer down, hammer in, hit, hit out, knock in, knock out, pursue, sink in, smash down, smash in, stave in, strike, take, take up, to stave in, turn, turn up, wrap up), einhämmern (chisel in, drum into, engrave, hammer in, hammer into). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivedray omehay

Russian 

убеждать (admonish, carry conviction, coax, convince, exhort, gain over, get, induce, persuade, reason, reassure, remonstrate, satisfy), внедрять в сознание. (various references)

Swedish

slå i ordentligt, inpränta (embed, imbed, implant, impress, imprint, inculcate). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: emeroid, heirdom, homered, hovered, removed.

-3 letters: derive, devoir, dormie, emerod, heired, hemoid, homier, oreide, overed, reived, remove, voider.

-4 letters: dimer, diver, drive, drove, eider, erode, heder, hider, hired, hived, homed, homer, horde, hover, merde, mired, moire, moved, mover, movie, rehem, reive, rimed, rived, roved, video, vireo, vomer.

-5 letters: deem, deer, deme, demo, dere, derm.

+3 letters: impoverished.

+5 letters: overemphasized.