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BULLDOZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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)
