STEAMROLLER

• (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements

  synonyms : road roller

• (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way

  synonyms : juggernaut

• (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller

  "steamroll the roads"

  synonyms : steamroll

• (verb) overwhelm by using great force

  "steamroller the opposition"

  synonyms : steamroll

• (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level

  "steamroller the road"

• (verb) proceed with great force

  "The new teacher tends to steamroller"

  synonyms : steamroll

• (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure

  "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat"

  synonyms : steamroll

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