BULLDOZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they bulldoze ... he / she / it bulldozes

Past simple: bulldozed

Past participle: bulldozed

-ing form: bulldozing

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)