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RAM HOME
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
Example:
I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas
Synonyms:
drive home; press home; ram home
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "ram home" is one way to...):
accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something