Steamroller

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A steam-driven machine equipped with a heavy roller for smoothing road surfaces.
  • n. A similar machine with an internal-combustion engine.
  • n. A ruthless or irresistible force or power.
  • v. To smooth or level (a road) with a steamroller.
  • v. To overwhelm or suppress ruthlessly; crush.
  • verb-intransitive. To move or proceed with overwhelming or crushing force.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a steam-powered heavy road roller
  • n. Any heavy road roller
  • n. any seemingly irresistible force
  • n. a pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end; it rolls the smoke (steam)
  • v. to level a road using a steamroller
  • v. to proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force; to overpower
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
  • v. make level or flat with a steamroller
  • n. a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
  • v. crush with a steamroller as if to level
  • n. vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
  • v. overwhelm by using great force
  • v. proceed with great force
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