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Vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
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steamroller
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Word definitions for steamroller in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ann Day, R-Tucson, the legislative steamroller behind a move to regulate HMOs. ▪ During the 1950s, Pfeffer was a veritable steamroller , filing suits or joining them throughout the country. ▪ Marc made her feel as if she'd ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A steamroller (or steam roller ) is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for levelling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine . The levelling/flattening action is achieved through a combination ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way [syn: juggernaut ] vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements [syn: road roller ] v. bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure; ...
Usage examples of steamroller.
When she returned to real time, she found that every single robot she could find was in action reconstituting the towns, and the factories were busily pumping out more bulldozers, earthmovers, dump trucks, backhoes, frontloaders, steamrollers, framers, foundation diggers, welders, cement makers, plastic makers, roofers, everything.
It was a gesture at once awesome and faintly embarrassing, a final steamrollering of the old galut whisper, "What will the goyim say?
When they pulled out of Haleiwa, they’d left behind a couple of bulldozers and a steamroller.
Some hot interior designer had gone through the place like a steamroller, scattering Navaho rugs and Southwest furniture, hanging cow skulls over the fireplace, and painting fake saguaro cactus on the dining room walls.
A small thing like the abduction of Britain’s top racing executive was not, it seemed, going to dent the onward steamrollering of the week’s serious pleasures.
Sam was turning to the left, steamrollering through the green-capped swells.
They go from start to finish like steamrollers, pausing only to wipe the blood from their swords, and if the exploits are downright impossible, that's part of their undeniable charm.
A fleet of steamrollers couldn't have pushed her forward and into that noisy clutch of women now.
Praporovich was too careful, and too thorough, to steamroller his opinions, or dismiss them as the waverings of a weaker man.