单词 | bulldozing |
释义 | bulldozingn. 1. Originally and chiefly U.S. Originally: intimidation or coercion, esp. for political ends (now rare). Now usually: pushy or domineering behaviour; bullying. ΚΠ 1876 People's Vindicator (Natchitoches, Louisiana) 12 Aug. If, in 1874, the Radical whelps here had been justly dealt with..our section would be free, at least, from this daily howling of ‘bulldoozing and white league shot-guns’. 1878 Harper's Weekly 23 Nov. 926/2 They have not that sense of equality and the determination to resist injustice which would make bulldozing and red-shirting and Ku-Kluxery of every kind impossible on a great scale in the Northern States. 1916 E. M. Woolley Cub Reporter xvi. 172 I'm willing to give you the story..if Tompkins will treat me fair and square; I'm through with his bulldozing. 2021 W. Linton & S. Tappin Awareness Code iv. 71 Persistent unwanted attention is one way of bullying...Other forms are bulldozing, hounding, domineering and intense heckling. 2. Mining (North American). The action of breaking up large blocks of rock or ore (esp. using explosives) in order to allow the material to be transported from the mine. ΚΠ 1901 Rep. Governor Alaska in Ann. Rep. Dept. Interior: Misc. Rep. Pt. II App. a. 66 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (57th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 5) XXVI All blasting and bulldozing in stopes must be done under the direct supervision of the powder man. 1996 S. M. Voynick Climax vi. 146 Constant bulldozing on the grizzlies so weakened the ground that entire chutes were lost. 3. The action of clearing, levelling, or demolishing something with or as with a bulldozer. ΚΠ 1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 90 369 ‘Bull-dozing’, in which the vertical walls at the head of a gully are destroyed and a sloping surface constructed. 1953 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 19 232 The destruction of many of the downland earthworks by bulldozing and deep ploughing. 2010 S. Whatmore & S. Hinchliffe in Oxf. Handbk. Material Culture Stud. 455 It was established that the bulldozing of the site had not diminished its wildlife value. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). bulldozingadj. That bulldozes (in various senses of bulldoze v.). Also: characterized by bulldozing. ΚΠ 1876 New Orleans Republican 28 June 1/5 So complete is the reign of terror created by the bulldozing Regulators of East Feliciana and East Baton Rouge, that half of the inhuman brutalities practiced on innocent colored men will never be told. 1930 F. Nebel in O. Penzler Black Lizard Big Bk. of Pulps (2007) 178/1 Yah, you're just the bull-dozing cop I heard you were!.. Just a big, loud-mouthed tough guy! 1949 Good Housek. June 76/2 Every panacea-pamphlet that pours from the bull-dozing pens of doctrinaire Utopians. 2017 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 17 Aug. 15 It's time this bulldozing approach to urban planning stopped. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1876adj.1876 |
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