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View synonyms for bulldozer

bulldozer

[ bool-doh-zer ]

noun

  1. a large, powerful tractor having a vertical blade at the front end for moving earth, tree stumps, rocks, etc.
  2. a person who intimidates or coerces.


bulldozer

/ ˈbʊlˌdəʊzə /

noun

  1. a powerful tractor fitted with caterpillar tracks and a blade at the front, used for moving earth, rocks, etc
  2. informal.
    a person who bulldozes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bulldozer1

1875–80, Americanism; 1925–30 in the sense “tractor”; origin uncertain. See bulldoze ( def )
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Example Sentences

Dugin founded EYUR in 2005, he said, so its members would be “human shields in the face of the Orange bulldozer.”

“The Olympic Games, like a big bulldozer, keep rolling all over our lives,” Martynov said with a sigh.

Soldiers, settlers, and bulldozer drivers have also mercilessly targeted civilians.

A dusty yellow bulldozer pulls up and begins to grade the trash away into the fill.

Ameira still had to pay 25,000 shekels ($7,000) to hire a bulldozer and trucks to transport the rubble….

One specimen was unearthed from the bank of a small muddy stream by a bulldozer.

There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer.

A bulldozer stood abandoned on it, brand-new and in perfect order, with the smell of gasoline and oil about it.

He reached the bulldozer and turned south, and at long last reached the highway.

The specimen was uncovered by a bulldozer at a depth of about one foot below the surface.

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