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