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Bulldoze

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To clear, dig up, or move with a bulldozer.

v. To treat in an abusive manner; bully.

v. To coerce in an unsympathetic or cruel way. See Synonyms at intimidate.

v. To do away with; demolish: "A massive bipartisan majority voted . . . to bulldoze the social programs of decades in the next 30 days” ( Peter Goldman).

verb-intransitive. To operate a bulldozer.

verb-intransitive. To proceed forcefully or insensitively: "intends to bulldoze ahead with plans for extensive reconstruction” ( New York Times).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To destroy with a bulldozer.

v. to push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".

v. To push through forcefully.

v. to shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.

v. To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To punish summarily with a bull-whip; cowhide.

To coerce or intimidate by violence or threats; especially, in politics, to bully; influence unfairly: applied particularly to the practices of some southern whites since the civil war.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. flatten with or as if with a bulldozer

Word Usage

"And then there is this so called "infill," aka bulldoze old city, built NYC here and now, but all 100 year old new modern (no "phony" craftsman for them)."

Verb Form

bulldozed bulldozes bulldozing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rase take down level tear down dismantle

Form

bulldozed bulldozing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

intimidate bully