English

Verb

Infinitive to drive home

Third person singular drives home

Simple past drove home

Past participle driven home

Present participle driving home

to drive home (third-person singular simple present drives home, present participle driving home, simple past drove home, past participle driven home)

  1. (transitive) To push to or into a target.
    • 1969, James Plunkett, Strumpet City: A Novel, page 396
      He grunted as he drove each nail home.
    • 1996, Harry Harrison, One King's Way, page 186
      Karli shook himself, drove home the last nail with a flat stone, straightened up.
    • 2004, Judith Tarr, Queen of the Amazons, page 293
      Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration.
    “I do what I like”, he said, and — just to drive home the point — he spat on the newly-cleaned floor.

 

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