steamroller
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
Types & categories
- power hypernym
Related & opposite
- steamroll derivation
- steamroller derivation
- steamroller derivation
Sense 2 verb
bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat
Types & categories
- pressure hypernym
Related & opposite
- steamroller derivation
- steamroll verb group
- steamroller verb group
Sense 3 noun
vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
Types & categories
- vehicle hypernym
Related & opposite
- steamroll derivation
- steamroller derivation
Sense 4 verb
proceed with great force
The new teacher tends to steamroller
Types & categories
- go hypernym
Related & opposite
- steamroller derivation
- steamroller verb group
Sense 5 verb
crush with a steamroller as if to level
steamroller the road
Types & categories
- squeeze hypernym
Related & opposite
- road roller derivation
Sense 6 verb
overwhelm by using great force
steamroller the opposition
Types & categories
- overpower hypernym
Related & opposite
- steamroller derivation
- steamroller verb group
Sense 7 verb
make level or flat with a steamroller
steamroll the roads
Types & categories
- flatten hypernym
Related & opposite
- road roller derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroll |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | power |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | steamroll |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pressure |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroll |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | vehicle |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | go |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | road roller |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | squeeze |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 6 | verb group | Related & opposite | steamroller |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | overpower |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | road roller |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | flatten |