Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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force | Yes | No | Yes | No |
steamroller | Yes | No | Yes | No |
force (noun) | steamroller (noun) |
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a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base | vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements |
an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way |
physical energy or intensity | |
a powerful effect or influence | |
(of a law) having legal validity | |
group of people willing to obey orders | |
a unit that is part of some military service | |
a group of people having the power of effective action | |
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority | |
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity |
force (verb) | steamroller (verb) |
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impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | make level or flat with a steamroller |
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | overwhelm by using great force |
force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | crush with a steamroller as if to level |
take by force | proceed with great force |
do forcibly; exert force | bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure |
urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | |
move with force | |
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means |