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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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