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bulldoze Definition

☆ bull·doze (bo̵ol′dōz′)

transitive verb -·dozed′, -·doz′·ing

  1. Informal to force or frighten by threatening; intimidate; bully
  2. to move, make level, dig out, etc. with a bulldozer

Etymology: < n. bulldose, a severe beating < bull (Botany Bay slang), a flogging of 75 lashes + dose

bulldoze Usage Examples

Object

  • track: Bulldozed Tracks Tell us which you think is Scotland's worst example?
  • road: To harvest it would need the forest road bulldozed on through the defile.
  • home: Over the past few weeks, Mugabe has been bulldozing the homes of the poorest people in the towns.
  • house: The ancient revenge: bulldozing houses, destroying olive groves.
  • building: But the militia members them selves buried a large number of corpses beneath bulldozed buildings.
  • tree: They also carefully tally numbers of dead, houses bulldozed, trees uprooted, settler attacks and blockaded areas.

Subject

  • army: This a road bulldozed by the Pakistani army into a sheer mountainside after both access roads to the valley were destroyed by the earthquake.

Modifying Another Word

  • away: Outcome: The lido lay derelict for three years from 1990 until it was finally bulldozed away in 1993.
  • then: Good god, this is one house that should be condemned, and then bulldozed.
  • just: The average Brit just bulldozes through life, and houses, doing exactly what he wants, irrespective of the lasting damage.
  • simply: And to lower your opponent's marketshare, simply bulldoze the buildings around their stores ( stations in Transport Tycoon ).
  • not: I cant completely rule out that some areas were not bulldozed as an " armchair critic " .
  • now: Multiplayer 1. You can now bulldoze in multiplayer games.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • out: In many cases, of course, because they had been bulldozed out of their homes.
  • over: Toddler was on hand to Take the last pass and bulldoze over for the score.
  • through: An enlarged track has been bulldozed through from the top of the TV mast track to end at a high level above Seldesuto.
  • along: After the war the camp was bulldozed along with the church but the stained glass windows were saved.

Infinitive complement

  • build: A massive communist development, meaning lots of stuff was bulldozed to build it.

Preposition: of

  • track: Planning Issues The main planning issue this year was the bulldozing of a vehicular track on the Attadale estate in Wester Ross.

Preposition: by

  • army: This a road bulldozed by the Pakistani army into a sheer mountainside after both access roads to the valley were destroyed by the earthquake.