STEAMROLLS Synonyms

• leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

• a dense crowd of people

• temporary love of an adolescent

• the act of crushing

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• break into small pieces

• humiliate or depress completely

• crush or bruise

• make ineffective

• become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• be in control

• have dominance or the power to defeat over

• be greater in significance than

• look down on

• too much production or more than expected

• invade in great numbers

• occupy in large numbers or live on a host

• flow or run over (a limit or brim)

• seize the position of and defeat

• run beyond or past

• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

• charge someone with too many tasks

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• overcome by superior force

• the sound of heavy treading or stomping

• tread or stomp heavily or roughly

• injure by trampling or as if by trampling

• walk on and flatten