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Meanings of steamroller in anglès

portuguès
jamanta

A massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way.

jamanta
català
aixafar
espanyol
aplastar

Make level or flat with a steamroller.

aixafar
espanyol
steamroller

Microarchitecture.

Related terms
steamroller

Vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements.

Sinònims
Examples for "road roller"
Examples for "road roller"
1
For 17-year-old Tinesha, the trauma from the road roller incident was still fresh.
Radio NZ
2
Near the station, close by the turnpike, lay a road roller.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
3
A road roller always was in sight.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
4
The Hutt Valley man accused of using a road roller to disrupt a gathering of boy racers has been named.
Radio NZ
5
Car enthusiasts watched their most prized possession's be destroyed by a road roller at a meet-up in Upper Hutt over the weekend.
Radio NZ
Usage of steamroller in anglès
1
Wenger must somehow achieve precisely the opposite as Bayern steamroller into town.
The Guardian
2
Don't think that the steamroller has any care or intention to stop.
Ebony
3
Regan blinked, sensing she was about to be hit by a steamroller.
Darkness unleashed
4
The prairie grasses were flattened, as if trampled by a giant steamroller.
The diary of mattie spenser
5
But the report makes clear the Olympics is the biggest steamroller of all.
The Guardian
6
It was as if a steamroller was moving past on the street outside.
The Irish Times
7
Sophie felt as if a steamroller had just knocked her down.
Sophie's world
8
Only it wasn't a steamroller this time, more like a tsunami.
Beautiful creatures
9
Glucksman turned into a steamroller, driving through his wishes and whims, uninterrupted, unencumbered.
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
10
You would not transport a steamroller on a light pick-up truck, he said.
The Irish Times
11
EU leaders have the power to steamroller Mersch's appointment through over the lawmakers' objections.
Reuters
12
Cole could always be relied upon to join in and steamroller over everyone's doubts.
Jacinto's Remnant
13
The vast Soviet thrust was moving inexorably and slowly toward us, like a steamroller.
The forgotten soldier
14
I could feel the pace accelerating like a runaway steamroller.
A knife edge
15
But if Izzie trips in front of a steamroller, maybe they're miffed after all.
Reuters
16
People went about then counting the Russian millions; the steamroller fetish was to be evolved.
The Great Impersonation
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Translations for steamroller
portuguès
jamanta
Steamroller through the time