Definition of BULLDOZE

bulldoze

Verb

Verb Forms: bulldozed, bulldozing, bulldozes

  • To clear or move with a bulldozer; to intimidate.
  • flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
  • To destroy with a bulldozer.
  • To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
  • To push through forcefully.
  • To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
  • To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
  • To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

Examples

  • Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.
  • He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.
  • He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
  • She aimed to bulldoze through her opponent’s defenses with a massive bingo.
  • That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.

Origin / Etymology

From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose, a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull + dose.

Scrabble Score: 20

bulldoze: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bulldoze: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bulldoze: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 24

bulldoze: valid Words With Friends Word