BULLDOZE


Meaning of BULLDOZE in English

(~s, bulldozing, ~d)

1.

If people ~ something such as a building, they knock it down using a ~r.

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

VERB: V n

2.

If people ~ earth, stone, or other heavy material, they move it using a ~r.

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

VERB: V n

3.

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

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

The coalition ~d the resolution through the plenary session...

My parents tried to ~ 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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