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(transitive) To push something into position completely by force. / (figuratively, transitive) To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration.

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drive home

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Source Word

drive home

Verb

transitive figuratively

Japanese Meaning

（何かを）完全に押し込む、固定する / （比喩的に）実例などで力強く主張する、強調する

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Please drive home the stake until it is flush with the ground.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

杭を地面にぴったり合うまで完全に打ち込んでください。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To push something into position completely by force.

He grunted as he drove each nail home.

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Sense（2）

(figuratively, transitive) 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.

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