drive home

1. 1.

   carry out or perform

   “deliver an attack”

   “deliver a blow”

   “The boxer drove home a solid left”

   Synonymsdeliver

   Broadergive

   Narrowerland
2. 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”

   Synonymsram homepress home

   Broaderstress

Questions about drive home

What does drive home mean?

drive home means "carry out or perform". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for drive home?

Close synonyms include deliver, ram home, press home. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drive home a common word?

drive home is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.