bulldoze

verb

1. To destroy with a bulldozer.

   “He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.”

   “Chulalongkorn [University] set to bulldoze historic Chinese-Thai shrine, build condos”

2. (UK)To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".

   “He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.”

3. To push through forcefully.

   “For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform. In the 11th minute Theo Walcott drilled in a corner, and Olivier Giroud bulldozed through unopposed to thump the ball goalwards.”

   “Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).”

4. To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.

   “Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.”

   “There stood a low yellow compact machine which apparently did the digging and bull-dozed back the earth.”

5. (UK)To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.

   “That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.”

   “After the EAC published its report last summer, and the media finally began to take an interest, it looked as if all this might change. But then the issue, like so many others, was bulldozed by Brexit.”

6. (US, dated, slang)To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

   “The standard of qualifications for teachers has been very greatly advanced, till at the present day not one in ten of the old pedagogues who taught “readin’, ritin’ and ‘rithmetic,” and bulldozed unruly pupils with the birch, the beech or the willow rod, or in their absence the ferrule, would be able to procure a third grade or any grade certificate to be able to teach in the most secluded rural “deestrict” in all of the western states.”

   “The practice of whipping and killing negroes in the Southern States was called bull-dozing. The word is a corruption of bull dose, or strong dose - in the sense that a bull fence is a strong fence. “Give him the bull dose” was the direction when a negro had to be severely punished.”

   “He endeavoured to persuade, then to drive, and lastly to bulldoze, and this is where he made a mistake that came near to ruining his future happiness. The bull lowered his head, uttered a war whoop, and, raising his antagonist from the face of the earth, sent him spinning through some twenty feet or more. […] The bull is now doing duty in a butcher’s shop as a stock in trade and (Mr William H.) Searing is nursing two sore ribs.”