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Verb steamroll has 4 senses
- steamroller, steamroll - bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure; "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat"
--1 is one way to coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- steamroller, steamroll - proceed with great force; "The new teacher tends to steamroller"
--2 is one way to go, proceed, move
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- steamroller, steamroll - overwhelm by using great force; "steamroller the opposition"
--3 is one way to overpower, overmaster, overwhelm
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- steamroll, steamroller - make level or flat with a steamroller; "steamroll the roads"
--4 is one way to flatten
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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