bulldoze
bulldoze
verb
verb
- [with obj.]clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer
（用推土机）把…夷为平地
developers are bulldozing the site.
开发商正在平整这块地。
■(figurative, informal)use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something)
(喻，非正式)威吓，欺负
she believes that to build status you need to bulldoze everyone else.
她认为要确立自己的地位就得震住所有的人。
- late 19th cent. (originally US in the sense 'intimidate'): from bull + -doze, alteration of the noun dose
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