单词 | bulldoze |
释义 | bulldoze /bool"dohz'/, v. , bulldozed, bulldozing. v.t. 1. to clear, level, or reshape the contours of (land) by or as if by using a bulldozer: to bulldoze a building site. 2. to clear away by or as if by using a bulldozer: to bulldoze trees from a site. 3. to coerce or intimidate, as with threats. v.i. 4. to use a bulldozer: To clear this rubble away we may have to bulldoze. 5. to advance or force one's way in the manner of a bulldozer. [1875-80, Amer.; orig. uncert.; the notion that it represents a v. use of bull dose, i.e., a dose fit for a bull, is prob. specious; defs. 1, 2, 4, 5 are back formations from BULLDOZER tractor] Syn. 3. browbeat, cow, bully, hector; tyrannize. |
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