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bulldoze
[ bool-dohz ]
verb (used with object)
- to clear, level, or reshape the contours of (land) by or as if by using a bulldozer:
to bulldoze a building site.
- to clear away by or as if by using a bulldozer:
to bulldoze trees from a site.
- to coerce or intimidate, as with threats.
verb (used without object)
- to use a bulldozer:
to clear this rubble away we may have to bulldoze.
- to advance or force one's way in the manner of a bulldozer.
bulldoze
/ ˈbʊlˌdəʊz /
verb
- to move, demolish, flatten, etc, with a bulldozer
- informal.to force; push
he bulldozed his way through the crowd
- informal.to intimidate or coerce
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Example Sentences
They declared triumphantly they would bulldoze other Western-imposed borders as well.
Nevertheless, he warns, “I am afraid that some of our military heavyweights may bulldoze their way to stop the talks.”
In vain they tried to bulldoze and cajole, to push and to pull, to plead with and to denounce the obstinate Nancy Jane.
No call to bulldoze a fellow just because you happened to be first on the spot!
Then it required another half hour for the three to bulldoze McGregor into accepting it.
But he knew Christopher Straight too well to attempt to bulldoze that hard-eyed old woodsman.
An attempt to bulldoze a young government man into believing that the taking of logs without payment was permissible.
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