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# steamroller

«steamroller» in Mova's school dictionary: **A heavy machine with big, wide rollers that flattens…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a steamroller, steamrollers); verb (steamroller, steamrollers, steamrollered, steamrollering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A heavy machine with big, wide rollers that flattens roads; once powered by steam, now usually by diesel (often called a road roller). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#m1)

2) (verb, informal) To force something through or defeat someone easily with great power, ignoring objections. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#m2)

3) (noun, figurative) A force that crushes all opposition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and children's books, steamrollers flatten new roads. In news and sport, a team «steamrollered» another means beat them easily; a leader «steamrollers» a plan through means forced it without listening.

### examples

- The steamroller flattened the new road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#x1)
- The cartoon cat was squashed flat by a steamroller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#x2)
- The team steamrollered their opponents 8–0. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#x3)
- The boss steamrollered the plan through the meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#x4)
- Old steamrollers puff smoke at the vintage show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#x5)
- We watched the steamroller go slowly back and forth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/#x6)

### note

Countable; one word. Past: steamrollered (or steamrolled in the USA). A modern machine is a road roller.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «steamroller» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamroller/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.