Crossword clues for bulldoze
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1880, from an earlier noun, bulldose "a severe beating or lashing" (1876), literally "a dose fit for a bull," a slang word referring to the intimidation beating of black voters (by either blacks or whites) in the chaotic 1876 U.S. presidential election. See bull (n.1) + dose (n.). Related: Bulldozed; bulldozing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To destroy with a bulldozer. 2 (context UK English) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over". 3 (context UK English) To push through forcefully. 4 To push, as a bulldozer pushes 5 (context UK English) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully. 6 (context US slang dated English) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisian
WordNet
v. flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
Usage examples of "bulldoze".
The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat-topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.
The Staties had bulldozed an access road in to the site, and now almost a dozen state cruisers, SOC trucks, ambulances, and other vehicles sat in an instant parking lot carved out of the corn.
As Party chief of Sverdlovsk, he had carried out a Kremlin order to bulldoze the house where Czar Nicholas II and his family had been murdered in 1918.
This time the money came in hefty election-time checks from developers, their attorneys and members of the Latin Builders Associationthose who most eagerly want to bulldoze the wetlands.
The state had also bulldozed some lakes in the valley and stocked them with rainbow and cutthroat trout, and there were half a dozen manicured campgrounds along the route.
They loved to plow up the mangroves and bulldoze the gnarled, disorderly native vegetation and replace them with block houses closed to the breeze and decorative shrubs that belonged somewhere else.
Think of those two dogs of detectives, questioning, bulldozing, shadowing!
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.