steamrolling

Verb

steamroll (third-person singular simple present steamrolls, present participle steamrolling, simple past and past participle steamrolled)

1. To flatten, as if with a steamroller.
   • The service had one small break when it was suspended between October, 1904, and April, 1905, owing to the refusal of the Helston Rural District Council to steam roll the road. At this time there was no steam roller in use anywhere west of Plymouth, and the railway company loaned one of its steam...1952 September, A. E. C. Dent, “Early G.W.R. Road Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 631
2. (figuratively) To ruthlessly crush or overwhelm.
   • I tried to participate in a sports tournament, but got steamrolled by the better players there.