steamroller

1. 1.

   a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way

   Synonymsjuggernaut

   Broaderpower
2. 2.

   vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements

   Synonymsroad roller

   Broadervehicle

Other forms of steamroller

plural

steamrollers·

past tense

steamrollerred·

present participle

steamrollerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about steamroller

What does steamroller mean?

steamroller means "bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in steamroller?

steamroller has 3 syllables: steam-rol-ler. The stress falls on "steam". In IPA it is /ˈstimˌɹoʊlɚ/.

What is another word for steamroller?

Close synonyms include steamroll, steamroll, steamroll, steamroll, juggernaut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is steamroller a common word?

steamroller is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with steamroller?

1 word rhymes with steamroller. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.