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Bulldozing

verb
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo destroy with a bulldozer.
"He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down."
2.verbTo push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
"He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over."
3.verbTo push through forcefully.
4.verbTo push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
"Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage."
5.verbTo shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
"That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it."
6.verbTo intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.
7.nounAn act of demolition with a bulldozer.

Synonyms

shovelingfellingsweepinglevelingdemolitiondestructionravagingdemolishingdestroyingrazingknockdownblasting

Rhymes With

imposingclosingopposingdozingcomposingjuxtaposingdisclosingposing
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