English Dictionary

bulldoze

/ˈbʊldoʊz/

verb

To destroy with a bulldozer. / (UK) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over". / To push through forcefully. / To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.

The construction company plans to bulldoze the old building to make way for a new shopping center.

意味（1）

To destroy with a bulldozer.

He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.

意味（2）

(UK) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".

He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.

意味（3）

To push through forcefully.

For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform. In the 11th minute Theo Walcott drilled in a corner, and Olivier Giroud bulldozed through unopposed to thump the ball goalwards.

意味（4）

To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.

There stood a low yellow compact machine which apparently did the digging and bull-dozed back the earth.

意味（5）

(UK) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.

That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.

意味（6）

(US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

Whatever may be the long delayed result of the election of 1876, there is one point which has not yet been commented on, and that is, its effect upon our language. There is no surer indication of the mightiness of a national event than this, that a number of new expressions and new words have been born into our common speech, through the strong travail of the times. You will find in the mouths of the people and the press at least three combinations of words which, in the strongest sense they are now used in, have never been there before. One of them is “Counted out,” or “Counted in.” Another is, “Wait for the returns,” and a third, pure slang, is, “bulldozed.” […] ”Wait for the returns,” has drifted from politics into business, religion, home and society, and bulldozed is the common word for intimidation in any of the extraordinary occupations of life.