bring home
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.16 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make clearer or better understood.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, home.
Example Sentences
- "I bring home 10000 dollars a month."
- "War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual."
- "The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme."
- "This brought home the inadequacies of NIH policy regarding informed consent, as well as its continued reliance on the ethical judgment of its individual investigators."
- "This incident really brings home the whole question of access, the point of entry for people into observing or seeing art at that kind of level."
- "This was brought home to me, an NT, when I asked an autistic E-mail correspondent, who is mordantly expressive on line, what it would be like to meet."