Crossword clues for steamroll
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To flatten, as if with a steamroller 2 To ruthlessly crush or overwhelm
WordNet
v. bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure; "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat" [syn: steamroller]
proceed with great force; "The new teacher tends to steamroller" [syn: steamroller]
overwhelm by using great force; "steamroller the opposition" [syn: steamroller]
make level or flat with a steamroller; "steamroll the roads" [syn: steamroller]
Usage examples of "steamroll".
All of their dealings will have to go through me, and I can be assured of being in a position to reap the benefits of this new turmoil, rather than be steamrolled by it.
Bloom was about halfway to his feet when the pig knocked him down and steamrolled right over him again.
Sam explained in a jolly, steamrolling manner, between forkfuls of stew.
The hull steamrolling its way ahead of me takes massive abuse from plasma lances and the Yavacs' heaviest guns.
Fearing a November steamrolling by Jeb Bush and the GOP, Buddy MacKay, the Democratic gubernatorial front-runner, recently asked Lawrence (a registered independent) to consider joining the ticket as lieutenant governor.
Some eighteen, twenty years ago he was a steamrolling, fire and brimstone fanatic called Al Farrah—his fucking ego wouldn't let him drop that part of his past, the hallelujah chorus part.
Remnants would, very probably, form militias responsive to their own ethnic interests, but the day of a Soviet juggernaut steamrolling over Europe and Asia would be gone.
But Varis would have none of it, steamrolling right over her elder's protests.