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Bulldozer vs Bulldozed - What's the difference?

bulldozer | bulldozed |

As verbs the difference between bulldozer and bulldozed

is that bulldozer is to bulldoze (push through forcefully) while bulldozed is (bulldoze).

As a noun bulldozer

is a tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

bulldozer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
  • One who bulldozes.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents. Also known as "regulators". Later used to describe anyone who intimidated or bullied in a similar manner.
  • A bully, overbearing individual.
  • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
  • bulldozed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bulldoze)

  • bulldoze

    English

    Verb

    (bulldoz)
  • To destroy with a bulldozer.
  • He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
  • (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.
  • (UK) To push through forcefully.
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  • 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.
  • To push, as a bulldozer pushes
  • "Again the animal had bulldozed all its bedding with its fat bottom into a heap at one end of its cage."
  • (UK) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
  • That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.
  • (US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.