Browbeat vs Bulldoze - What's the difference?
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To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
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.
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To push, as a bulldozer pushes
(UK) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
(US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.
Browbeat is a related term of bulldoze.
As verbs the difference between browbeat and bulldoze
is that browbeat is to bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way while bulldoze is to destroy with a bulldozer.browbeat
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Alternative forms
* brow-beatVerb
- Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
Synonyms
* (to bully in an intimidating way) bully, cow, domineer, intimidateReferences
* * English irregular verbsbulldoze
English
Verb
(bulldoz)- He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
- He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.
- 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.
- "Again the animal had bulldozed all its bedding with its fat bottom into a heap at one end of its cage."
- That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.
