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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
steamroller
1. a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
• Syn:
juggernaut
• Derivationally related forms:
steamroll
• Hypernyms:
power, force
2. vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
• Syn:
road roller
• Hypernyms:
vehicle
1. bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
- The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat
• Syn:
steamroll
• Derivationally related forms:
steamroller (for: steamroll)
• Hypernyms:
coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force
• Verb Group:
steamroll
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. proceed with great force
- The new teacher tends to steamroller
• Syn:
steamroll
• Derivationally related forms:
steamroller (for: steamroll)
• Hypernyms:
go, proceed, move
• Verb Group:
steamroll
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. crush with a steamroller as if to level
- steamroller the road
• Hypernyms:
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. overwhelm by using great force
- steamroller the opposition
• Syn:
steamroll
• Derivationally related forms:
steamroller (for: steamroll)
• Hypernyms:
overpower, overmaster, overwhelm
• Verb Group:
steamroll
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Sam cannot steamroller Sue
5. make level or flat with a steamroller
- steamroll the roads
• Syn:
steamroll
• Hypernyms:
flatten
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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