Steamroller
WordNet
noun
(1) Vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
(2) A massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
verb
(3) Make level or flat with a steamroller
"Steamroll the roads"
(4) Overwhelm by using great force
"Steamroller the opposition"
(5) Crush with a steamroller as if to level
"Steamroller the road"
(6) Proceed with great force
"The new teacher tends to steamroller"
(7) Bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
"The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- a steam-powered heavy road roller
- Any heavy road roller
- any seemingly irresistible force
- a pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end; it rolls the smoke (steam)
Verb
- to level a road using a steamroller
- to proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force; to overpower