The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulldoze \Bull"doze`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bulldozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulldozing.] To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisian
[Slang, U.S.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: bulldoze)
Usage examples of "bulldozed".
A red mangrove, bulldozed, ripped out by the roots and dumped on the flats.
The entourage moved briskly across a recently bulldozed plateau, barren except for a bright green hillock that was cordoned with rope and ringed by reporters, photographers and television cameramen.
The satellite cameras zoomed in on the head of one line, and Colin Rexrew saw trees being bulldozed into the ground.
Hill-sized moraines of mire were pushed along valleys, bulldozed by the intolerable pressure exerted by cubic kilometres of more ooze behind.
The visitor had bulldozed its way along the vestibule, cracking the walls and shredding the furniture and fittings.
Royal Marine mechanoids had bulldozed entire swamps of saturated soil from the road as the army swept down the spine of the peninsula.
They had met in a restaurant in West Harlem, a bulldozed and newly colonized part of the city, and a compromise location for the brothersHooper had come from Coldharbor, which was off York Avenue in Upper East, and Hardy had been looking for office space in Washington Heights, where he hoped to locate what he now thought of as his Storm Center.
And not only no trees, it had also been bulldozed flat, the whole boundary.
Some hills had been wholly cleared all the bungalows bulldozed and buried.
They landed before noon on a rough airstrip bulldozed out of the wilderness.
The dune had been bulldozed to accommodate the tent, the laden tables, and the barbecue pits around which white-clad servants were busy, and the spitted carcasses of three sheep and a young ox were already browning crisply and emitting a cloud of fragrant steam.
Others had travel cases with handles and sophisticated support devices on the underside, a dead weight over the bulldozed terrain between here and the proper site.
Florescu was carrying a soft bag in her left hand, dragging the bottom along the bulldozed ground.
Steve Nessman and a pair of girls who’d lost their puppy fat on the march were manhandling rolls of sheeting off the trailer to the teams of civilians waiting to place them on the bulldozed ground.
Steve Nessman and a pair of girls who'd lost their puppy fat on the march were manhandling rolls of sheeting off the trailer to the teams of civilians waiting to place them on the bulldozed ground.