drive home

Definitions

1. 1

   To push something into position completely by force.

   • He grunted as he drove each nail home.
   • Karli shook himself, drove home the last nail with a flat stone, straightened up.
   • Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home.
2. 2

   To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration.

   • 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.
   • Anything, she thought, was better than bickering or the strange silence which drove home to her the distance between them.
   • The urgent need for vaccines was driven home by the expected postponement on Monday of Britain’s plan to reopen, caused by the spread of a variant known as Delta among the unvaccinated population.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, home.

   • He decided not to drive home right away.
   • He was afraid he would doze off on the long drive home.

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