(~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