1. Vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
   "The steamroller flattened the newly laid asphalt";
   - road roller
    
2. A massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
   "The tech company became a steamroller in the smartphone market";
   - juggernaut

1. Make level or flat with a steamroller
   "steamroller the roads";
   - steamroll
    
2. Overwhelm by using great force
   "steamroller the opposition";
   - steamroll
    
3. Crush with a steamroller as if to level
   "steamroller the road"
    
4. Proceed with great force
   "The new teacher tends to steamroller";
   - steamroll
    
5. Bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
   "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat";
   - steamroll

Derived forms: steamrollered, steamrollering, steamrollers

Type of: coerce, crush, flatten, force, go, hale [archaic], mash, move, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, pancake, power, pressure, proceed, squash, squeeze, squelch, squidge [informal], squish [informal], vehicle

Encyclopedia: Steamroller