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What does roughshod mean?

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Adjective
  1. (farriery) Of a horse: having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent slipping.
  2. (by extension) Brutal or domineering.
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Factional power stifles internal debate, runs roughshod over democratic processes and promotes disenfranchisement.
The days when giant corporations can ride roughshod over the wishes and needs of their customers are, thankfully, long gone.
We are furious that the council have passed this monstrosity because they are riding roughshod over the wishes of local residents.
And in doing so they have ridden roughshod over the rights of disabled people.
In the last days of the struggle, police rode roughshod over the satyagrahis who refused to part with the contraband salt.
Last time around they just rode roughshod over us but this time time there seems to be a better dialogue.

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