Meaning

To destroy with a bulldozer..

Definitions by Sense

1. To destroy with a bulldozer.
2. (UK) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
3. To push through forcefully.
4. To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
5. (UK) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
6. (US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

Example Sentences

He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.

Chulalongkorn [University] set to bulldoze historic Chinese-Thai shrine, build condos

He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.

For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform. In the 11th minute Theo Walcott drilled in a corner, and Olivier Giroud bulldozed through unopposed to thump the ball goalwards.

Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).

Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.

There stood a low yellow compact machine which apparently did the digging and bull-dozed back the earth.

That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.

Word Forms

• bulldozes
• bulldozing
• bulldozed

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