Wreck vs Bulldoze - What's the difference?
wreck | bulldoze |
Something or someone that has been ruined.
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
* Cowper
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
* Addison
* Spenser
* J. R. Green
(legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
* Shakespeare
To ruin or dilapidate.
(Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
* Daniel
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.
* '>citation
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 wreck and bulldoze
is that wreck is to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless while bulldoze is to destroy with a bulldozer.As a noun wreck
is something or someone that has been ruined.wreck
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
- To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
- the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds
- Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck , both of herself and goods.
- Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
- (Bouvier)
Synonyms
* crash * ruinsDerived terms
* shipwreckVerb
(en verb)- He wrecked the car in a collision.
- That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
- Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .
- Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* build * construct * make * produceDerived terms
* bewreck * wrecker * wreckageReferences
bulldoze
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.