BULLDOZE


Meaning of BULLDOZE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bʊldoʊz ]

( bulldozes, bulldozing, bulldozed)

1.

If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.

She defeated developers who wanted to bulldoze her home to build a supermarket.

VERB : V n

2.

If people bulldoze earth, stone, or other heavy material, they move it using a bulldozer.

Last week, the department’s road builders began to bulldoze a water meadow on Twyford Down.

VERB : V n

3.

If someone bulldozes a plan through or bulldozes another person into doing something, they get what they want in an unpleasantly forceful way.

The party in power planned to bulldoze through a full socialist programme...

The coalition bulldozed the resolution through the plenary session...

My parents tried to bulldoze me into going to college.

VERB : V n with through , V n through n , V n into n / -ing , also V n [ disapproval ]

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