bulldoze

[ bool-dohz ]
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verb (used with object),bull·dozed, bull·doz·ing.
  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.

  1. to coerce or intimidate, as with threats.

verb (used without object),bull·dozed, bull·doz·ing.
  1. to use a bulldozer:to clear this rubble away we may have to bulldoze.

  2. to advance or force one's way in the manner of a bulldozer.

Origin of bulldoze

1
1875–80, Americanism; origin uncertain; the notion that it represents a verb use of bull dose, i.e., a dose fit for a bull, is probably without merit; defs. 1, 2, 4, 5 are back formations from bulldozer in the sense “tractor”

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bulldoze

/ (ˈbʊlˌdəʊz) /


verb(tr)
  1. to move, demolish, flatten, etc, with a bulldozer

  2. informal to force; push: he bulldozed his way through the crowd

  1. informal to intimidate or coerce

Origin of bulldoze

1
C19: probably from bull 1 + dose

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