bulldoze

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

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.

/ˈbʊldoʊz/ /ˈbʊldəʊz/ En-au-bulldoze.ogg

bulldoze bulldozes bulldozing bulldozed

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

bulldozable unbulldozed

Finnish: puskea

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