| 单词 | steamroller |
| 释义 | steamroller (once / 33578 pages) nv WORD FAMILY steamroller: steamrollered, steamrollering, steamrollers+/steamroll: steamrolled, steamroller, steamrolling, steamrolls USAGE EXAMPLESCarols traditional and contemporary, from the “Hallelujah” chorus to the Mannheim Steamroller arrangement of “Silent Night.” Seattle Times(Dec 02, 2016) It contains humour “as subtle as a steamroller” and its “impudence, especially when dealing with the religions, is legendary”, the newspaper said. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) And on Dec. 19 the Electoral College will meekly allow itself to get steamrollered. Salon(Nov 28, 2016) 1n vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements Syn|Hyper road roller vehicle a conveyance that transports people or objects 2n a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way Syn|Hyper juggernaut force, power one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority 3v crush with a steamroller as if to level steamroller the road Hyper crush, mash, squash, squeeze, squelch to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition 4v make level or flat with a steamroller Syn|Hyper steamroll flatten make flat or flatter 5v bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat Syn|Hyper steamroll steamroll overwhelm by using great force steamrollproceed with great force coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" 6v overwhelm by using great force steamroller the opposition Syn|Hyper steamroll steamroll bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure overmaster, overpower, overwhelm overcome by superior force 7v proceed with great force The new teacher tends to steamroller Syn|Hyper steamroll steamroll bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure go, move, proceed follow a procedure or take a course |
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