Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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steamroller | Yes | No | Yes | No |
squash | Yes | No | Yes | No |
steamroller (noun) | squash (noun) |
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vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets |
a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable |
any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits |
steamroller (verb) | squash (verb) |
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make level or flat with a steamroller | to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition |
overwhelm by using great force | |
crush with a steamroller as if to level | |
proceed with great force | |
bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure |