bulldoze

bull·doze

bulldoze

transitive verb

-·dozed·, -·doz·ing

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

Origin of bulldoze

from noun bulldose, a severe beating from bull (Botany Bay slang), a flogging of 75 lashes + dose

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bulldoze

verb

bull·dozed, bull·doz·ing, bull·dozes

verb

transitive

To move, dig out, or demolish with a bulldozer: bulldozed the ground at the construction site; bulldozed a road through the woods; bulldozed the old building.
To coerce, intimidate, or bully: “Noah gives way, wounded and resigned; she can always bulldoze him, and always could” ( Perri Klass )
To do away with; terminate: “A massive bipartisan majority voted … to bulldoze the social programs of decades in the next 30 days” ( Peter Goldman )

verb

intransitive

To operate a bulldozer.
To proceed forcefully or insensitively: “intends to bulldoze ahead with plans for extensive reconstruction” ( New York Times )

Origin of bulldoze

Perhaps from alteration of obsolete bulldose severe beating bull ¹ dose

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present bulldozes, present participle bulldozing, simple past and past participle bulldozed)

To destroy with a bulldozer.
He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
(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.
(UK) To push through forcefully.
To push, as a bulldozer pushes
(UK) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.
(US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

Origin

From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose": "a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull +‎ dose.

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