BULLDOZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bulldoze mean? 

• BULLDOZE (verb)
  The verb BULLDOZE has 1 sense:

1. flatten with or as if with a bulldozer

  Familiarity information: BULLDOZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULLDOZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bulldoze    ... he / she / it bulldozes   
Past simple: bulldozed   
Past participle: bulldozed   
-ing form: bulldozing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flatten with or as if with a bulldozer

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bulldoze" is one way to...):

dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down (tear down so as to make flat with the ground)

"Bulldoze" entails doing...:

force; squeeze; wedge (squeeze like a wedge into a tight space)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

bulldozer (large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground)