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 Wordbulldoze: 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