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Wreck vs Bulldoze - What's the difference?

wreck | bulldoze |

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)
  • Something or someone that has been ruined.
  • He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
  • The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
  • * Cowper
  • To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
  • An event in which something is damaged through collision.
  • * Addison
  • the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds
  • * Spenser
  • 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.
  • * J. R. Green
  • Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
  • (legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
  • (Bouvier)

    Synonyms

    * crash * ruins

    Derived terms

    * shipwreck

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
  • He wrecked the car in a collision.
    That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
  • * Shakespeare
  • Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .
  • 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
  • Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * build * construct * make * produce

    Derived terms

    * bewreck * wrecker * wreckage

    References

    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.
  • * '>citation
  • 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.