Meaning & use
bulldoze
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To clear or flatten ground using a bulldozer, or to force one's way through an obstacle or forcefully coerce someone.
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Workers bulldozed the abandoned lot to make way for new construction.
He tried to bulldoze his way through the negotiations without listening to any objections.
A note on using this word
Before it referred to the machine, "bulldoze" was 19th-century American slang meaning to intimidate or coerce someone through force, and the bulldozer machine was later named after this sense.
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