Jostle vs Bulldoze - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
* Macaulay
* I. Taylor
To move through by pushing and shoving.
To be close to or in physical contact with.
To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
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.
As verbs the difference between jostle and bulldoze
is that jostle is (ambitransitive) to bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside while bulldoze is to destroy with a bulldozer.As a noun jostle
is an experience in which jostling occurs.jostle
English
Verb
(jostl)- Bullies jostled him.
- Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
bulldoze
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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.
