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Dragoon vs Bulldoze - What's the difference?

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Dragoon is a related term of bulldoze.


As verbs the difference between dragoon and bulldoze

is that dragoon is to force someone into doing something; to coerce while bulldoze is to destroy with a bulldozer.

As a noun dragoon

is (lb) a horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.

dragoon

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
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  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon ; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • A carrier of a dragon musket.
  • A variety of pigeon.
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  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To force someone into doing something; to coerce.
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    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.