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bulldoze verb [ ˈbʊldəʊz ]

• clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer.
• "developers are bulldozing the site"
Similar: demolish, knock down, tear down, pull down, flatten, fell, level, raze, raze to the ground, clear, destroy, lay waste to,
Opposite: construct,
Origin: late 19th century (originally US in the sense ‘intimidate’): from bull1 + -doze, alteration of the noun dose.


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