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steamroller
noun
verb
vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
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noun
vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
noun
a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
verb
make level or flat with a steamroller
“steamroll the roads”
verb
overwhelm by using great force
“steamroller the opposition”
verb
crush with a steamroller as if to level
“steamroller the road”
verb
proceed with great force
“The new teacher tends to steamroller”
verb
bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
“The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat”
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Example Sentences
steamroll the roads
steamroller the opposition
steamroller the road
The new teacher tends to steamroller
The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat
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