If people bulldoze earth, stone, or other heavy material, they move it using a bulldozer. Last week, the department's road builders began to bulldoze a water meadow on Twyford Down
If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer. She defeated developers who wanted to bulldoze her home to build a supermarket
disapproval If someone bulldozes a plan through or bulldozes another person into doing something, they get what they want in an unpleasantly forceful way. The party in power planned to bulldoze through a full socialist programme The coalition bulldozed the resolution through the plenary session My parents tried to bulldoze me into going to college