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🚜 A snow-removal vehicle 🛡️ To remove problems ⛷️ To slow while skiing 🚜 To clear snow 💥 To hit with vehicle
to snowplow

to snowplow

5.1
To hit and crush things like a mailbox with a vehicle that has a plow
  • verb
  • /ˈsnoʊplaʊ/
  • US
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  • The truck accidentally snowplowed a mailbox while clearing the street after the storm.

Examples

  • Several parked cars were snowplowed when the contractor misjudged the driveway's edge.

  • If you are not careful, you might snowplow the curb while driving in heavy snow.

  • The driver snowplowed through the heavy snow last night.

  • He snowplows the driveway every winter.

  • The driver snowplowed past the abandoned car after the blizzard cleared the road.

  • In the busy snowstorm, the town's plow snowplowed through the streets to keep them safe for drivers.

  • During the storm, the city workers snowplowed the entire neighborhood to ensure everyone could get to work.

Compounds

snowplow parent
  • Literature
7.5

A parent who removes problems so their child becomes too dependent on them

How Violent

to snowplow
  • US
5.1
to run over
93 3.3
to hit
∞ 1.0
to bump
111 1.0
to graze
31 3.7

Surface Forms

snowplow infinitive
snowplowed past
snowplowed past participle
snowplowing present participle
snowplows third person singular

Etymology

Snowplow can also mean to hit or crush something with a vehicle that has a plow. Think of a plow pushing over a mailbox or car, and you can see why to snowplow something is to drive over or smash it.