ram home vs emphasize

ram home and emphasize both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ram home	No	No	Yes	No
emphasize	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, emphasize is a hypernym of ram home; that is, emphasize is a word with a broader meaning than ram home:

ram home: make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
emphasize: to stress, single out as important

Other hypernyms of ram home include accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress.

ram home (verb)	emphasize (verb)
make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something	to stress, single out as important
	give extra weight to (a communication)