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third-person singular simple present steamrolls, present participle steamrolling, simple past and past participle steamrolled
To flatten, as if with a steamroller. examples
(figurative) To ruthlessly crush or overwhelm. quotations examples
In The Trial of Henry Kissinger the late British journalist, best known for his Vanity Fair columns, his deliberately provocative opinion that women aren’t funny and his penchant for booze and fags, steamrolls the former US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State for Presidents Nixon and Ford with a polemical brilliance so assured it cancels out the occasional flashes of arrogance and pomposity.
2019, John O’Connell, chapter 8, in Bowie's Bookshelf