Steamroller

Definition: Steamroller

Steamroller

Noun

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

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

Verb

1. Bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure; "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat".

2. Proceed with great force; "The new teacher tends to steamroller".

3. Crush with a steamroller as if to level; "steamroller the road".

4. Overwhelm by using great force; "steamroller the opposition".

Synonyms: Steamroller

Synonyms: juggernaut (n), road roller (n), steamroll (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vehicle	Tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Steamroller, midnight stroller (Hair Of The Dog; performing artist: Nazareth)
Movie/TV Titles	Mickey's Steamroller (1934)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	25 Year Celebration of Mannheim Steamroller (reference) Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas: Fingerstyle Guitar (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Christmas Concert by Chip Davis (Manheim Steamroller) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Steamroller Tactics [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) Mannheim Steamroller Meets The Mouse: Unique Musical Creations Based On Disney Songs (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Austin Mach. Corp. steamroller, probably in Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.		Steamroller grading road, probably Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Steamroller" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Steamroller" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	32	61,292

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "steamroller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rul ngjeshës. (various references)

Arabic		‏مدحلة بخارية. (various references)

Bulgarian		съкрушителна сила, смазвам (bow down, grease, jam, lubricate, mop up, oil, overbear, overwhelm, prostrate, pulverize, slush, smash, smear, squelch, tread down, tread under, unstring, weigh down, whelm), набивам с валяк, парен валяк. (various references)

Czech		parní válec (steam roller, steam-cylinder). (various references)

Finnish		jyrä (roller). (various references)

French		rouleau compresseur, faire approuver, écraser (stamp down, stub out). (various references)

German		Dampfwalze. (various references)

Greek		οδοστρωτήρ. (various references)

Hungarian		gõzhenger, úthengerlõ. (various references)

Italian		travolgere (overwhelm, run over, sweep away), compressore a vapore. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		強行採決 (steamroller voting, steamrollering). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょう�"うさいけつ (steamroller voting, steamrollering). (various references)

Pig Latin		eamrollerstay

Russian		паровой каток. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smrviti (crash, grind, smash), parni valjak (steam roller). (various references)

Spanish		apisonadora (paving roller, roller). (various references)

Swedish		krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crunch, crush, dash, flatten, fracture, mill, pulverize, quash, scotch, scrunch, shatter, smash, squelch), ångvält. (various references)

Thai		บีบบังคับ (coerce, coerce into), บ�"ถนนให้เรียบ, รถบ�"ถนนที่ขับเคลื่อน�"้วยพลังไอน้ำ. (various references)

Turkish		silindirle düzlemek, zorla elde etmek (pry), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), ezici güç (penetrating power), buharlı silindir. (various references)

Ukrainian		тиснути (clasp, nuddle, press), нищівна сила, знищувати усе на своему шляху, пробиватися з боями, паровий коток. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "steamroller": steamrollered, steamrollering, steamrollers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-m-o-r-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: elastomer, martellos, rostellar, salometer, steamroll, terrellas.
	-3 letters: alterers, martello, molester, morelles, oleaster, reallots, realters, realtors, rearmost, relaters, relators, remaster, restoral, rostella, solleret, streamer, stroller, terrella, tramells, trollers.
	-4 letters: alerter, alterer, areoles, armlets, armrest, elaters, emoters, lamster, maestro, mallees, mallets, maltols, maltose, melters, merlots, meteors, molters, morales, morelle, mortals, mortars, oleates, omelets, realest, reallot.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-l-m-o-r-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: steamrollers.
	+2 letters: steamrollered.
	+3 letters: steamrollering.
	+4 letters: metallographers.
	+5 letters: pyrometallurgies.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mannheim steamroller	301
manheim steamroller	64
steamroller	47
picnic steamroller	12
cd steamroller	7
american mannheim spirit steamroller	6
cd manheim steamroller	5
manhiem steamroller	5
blues steamroller	5
pipe steamroller	4
american manheim spirit steamroller	4
glass steamroller	4
steamroller surly	3
cd mannheim steamroller	3
mannheim steamroller concert	3
lyrics steamroller	3
production steamroller	2
mannhiem steamroller	2
mannheim midi steamroller	2
james lyrics steamroller taylor	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Steamroller

Definition: Steamroller

Steamroller

Noun

Verb

Synonyms: Steamroller

Synonyms within Context: Steamroller

Vehicle

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Modern Translation: Steamroller

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Derivations: Steamroller

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Anagrams: Steamroller

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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