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  • bulldoze — [v1] demolish drive, elbow, flatten, force, jostle, level, press, propel, push, raze, shove, thrust; concepts 208,252 Ant. build, construct bulldoze [v2] bully, intimidate bludgeon, bluster, browbeat, coerce, cow, dragoon, harass, hector; concept …   New thesaurus

  • bulldoze your way — to move forward while forcing other people to move out of your way They rudely bulldozed their way through the crowd. often used figuratively He bulldozed his way to the top and became the company s president. • • • Main Entry: ↑bulldoze …   Useful english dictionary

  • Bulldoze — Bull doze , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bulldozed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bulldozing}.] To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bulldoze — (v.) 1876, originally a noun, bulldose a severe beating or lashing, lit. a dose fit for a bull, a slang word referring to the intimidation beating of black voters (by either blacks or whites) in the chaotic 1876 U.S. presidential election. As a… …   Etymology dictionary

  • bulldoze — bully, browbeat, *intimidate, cow Analogous words: *threaten, menace: terrorize, terrify, *frighten: *worry, harass, harry Contrasted words: cajole, wheedle, blandish, *coax …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • bulldoze — ► VERB 1) clear or destroy with a bulldozer. 2) informal use force to deal with or coerce. ORIGIN from BULL(Cf. ↑bull) + doze, an alteration of the noun DOSE(Cf. ↑dose) …   English terms dictionary

  • bulldoze — ☆ bulldoze [bool′dōz΄ ] vt. bulldozed, bulldozing [< n. bulldose, a severe beating < bull (Botany Bay slang), a flogging of 75 lashes + DOSE] 1. Informal to force or frighten by threatening; intimidate; bully 2. to move, make level, dig out …   English World dictionary

  • bulldoze — [[t]b ʊldoʊz[/t]] bulldozes, bulldozing, bulldozed 1) VERB If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer. [V P] She defeated developers who wanted to bulldoze her home to build a supermarket. 2) VERB If… …   English dictionary

  • bulldoze — /bool dohz /, v., bulldozed, bulldozing. v.t. 1. to clear, level, or reshape the contours of (land) by or as if by using a bulldozer: to bulldoze a building site. 2. to clear away by or as if by using a bulldozer: to bulldoze trees from a site. 3 …   Universalium

  • bulldoze — v. to bulldoze through (they bulldozed their way through all obstacles) * * * [ bʊldəʊz] to bulldoze through (they bulldozed their way through all obstacles) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • bulldoze — verb 1) they plan to bulldoze the park Syn: demolish, knock down, tear down, pull down, flatten, level, raze, clear 2) he bulldozed his way through Syn: force, push, shove, barge …   Thesaurus of popular words

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