BULLDOZED Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

bulldozed

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past tense of bulldoze

as in pushed

to force one's way bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom

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as in intimidated

to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares

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Recent Examples of bulldozed But although the edifice built at great expense—by Fannie Lou Hamer, by John Lewis, by the bloodied limbs of Mississippi sharecroppers and Alabama marchers—has not been entirely bulldozed, only the facade remains. —

Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026 School bulldozed In a separate incident, activists say settlers bulldozed a school in Hammamat al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley Monday evening, near the village of Tayasir, where a CNN team was detained and assaulted by soldiers last month. —

Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026 The external expectations have not been this high since 2022, in part because of how the Avs bulldozed through the first half of the schedule. —

Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026 When money is received, the group works with wildlife managers if a location needs to be sheared, burned or bulldozed. —

Andrew Weeks, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026 Trump has already bulldozed the East Wing, which had been built in 1902 during President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration and expanded in 1942 during Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. —

Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026 Victims were dying at the rate of 50 to 100 a day, bulldozed into mass graves. —

Ken Quinn, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2026 Hence, the litany of defensive mistakes and conceding goals in quick succession — Chelsea leaked two late goals to turn a slender PSG advantage into a daunting one, Manchester City were bulldozed by three Federico Valverde goals in 23 minutes and Spurs were 4-0 down after 23 minutes. —

Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026 Chuy's bulldozed on Dallas' Mckinney Avenue 5. —

Elías Valverde, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026

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Now the edge is getting pushed yet again, as the culture transitions from the memeification of one man’s death to delighting in the real-time memes of wars.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
Kurt's key takeaways Spaceflight has always pushed the limits of what is possible, but the process has remained slow for a long time.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026