/bool"dohz'/ , v. , bulldozed, bulldozing .
v.t.
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.
3. to coerce or intimidate, as with threats.
v.i.
4. to use a bulldozer: To clear this rubble away we may have to bulldoze.
5. to advance or force one's way in the manner of a bulldozer.
[ 1875-80, Amer.; orig. uncert.; the notion that it represents a v. use of bull dose, i.e., a dose fit for a bull, is prob. specious; defs. 1, 2, 4, 5 are back formations from BULLDOZER tractor ]
Syn. 3. browbeat, cow, bully, hector; tyrannize.