What is the meaning of roughshod?

Of a horse. ( having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping)
Of persons or their actions. ( able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)
- usage: "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
- synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious
Unjustly domineering.
- usage: "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
- synonyms: heavy-handed

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