bulldoze
English
/ˈbʊldoʊz/, /ˈbʊldəʊz/
verb
Definitions
- To destroy with a bulldozer.
- (UK) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
- (UK) To push through forcefully.
- To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
- (UK) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
- (US) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.
Etymology
Compound from English bull + English dose.
Origin
English
dose
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bull English
- bull butter English
- bull dyke English
- bull-like English
- bull-mobile English
- bull-necked English
- bull-thrower English
- bullbaiting English
- bullbleep English
- bullcrap English
- bullcrud English
- bulldog English
- bulldozable English
- bulldozer English
- bulldung English
- bulldust English
- bullfaced English
- bullfight English
- bullfighter English
- bullfighting English
- bullfinch English
- bullfrog English
- bullfuck English
- bullhead English
- bullheaded English
- bullhook English
- bullhorn English
- bullish English
- bullneck English
- bullnecked English
- bullnose English
- bullock English
- bullpen English
- bullplop English
- bullpoop English
- bullpucky English
- bullrail English
- bullring English
- bullroarer English
- bullscutter English
- bullseye English
- bullshit English
- bullshot English
- bullsnake English
- bullsnot English
- bullspeak English
- bullswool English
- bullwhacker English
- bullwhip English
- bullwort English
- chrysobull English
- dose English
- dosemeter English
- doser English
- dosology English
- interdose English
- isodose English
- megadose English
- microdose English
- multidose English
- overdose English
- paleodose English
- permabull English
- postdose English
- predose English
- semibull English
- stingbull English
- superbull English
- underdose English
- buldózer Hungarian
- dose French
- бульдозер Russian
- bulldoser Norwegian Bokmål
- ブルドーザー Japanese
- buldożer Polish
- bulldosar Norwegian Nynorsk
- bole Middle English
- bullúil Irish
- bulldozer Danish
- dozo Esperanto
- buldos Cebuano
- buldosa Cebuano
- buldoser Cebuano
- dose Middle French
- 불도저 Korean
- agbuldos Ilocano
- bula-ma-kau Samoan Plantation Pidgin
- dose
- bull
- doser
- bullpen
- isodose
- predose
- bulldog
- bullock
- bullish
- bullsnot
- bullfrog
- bullrail
- postdose
- bullneck
- overdose
- bullhorn
- megadose
- bullnose
- bullshot
- bullring
- semibull
- bullwhip
- bullfuck
- bullhead
- bullhook
- bullcrap
- bullplop
- bullseye
- bulldust
- bullpoop
- bulldung
- bullwort
- bullshit
- bullcrud
- dosology
- bullswool
- interdose
- bull-like
- permabull
- bullbleep
- bulldozer
- paleodose
- stingbull
- multidose
- bullspeak
- microdose
- bullfaced
- bullfight
- bull dyke
- bullpucky
- bullfinch
- underdose
- dosemeter
- superbull
- bullsnake
- bullroarer
- bullheaded
- bullnecked
- chrysobull
- bullwhacker
- bull-mobile
- bullbaiting
- bullscutter
- bulldozable
- bullfighter
- bull butter
- bull-necked
- bullfighting
- bull-thrower