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Meanings of domineer in English

Spanish
dominar

Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner.

        dominar
        Usage of domineer in English
        1
        You will domineer over her, and desire to have your own way.
        An Old Man's Love
        2
        He was too wise to make laws and to domineer in the abstract.
        England, My England
        3
        He breaks the power of past evil to domineer over us.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
        4
        His great fault was that he must have someone to bully and domineer.
        Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
        5
        And this, whether the vassals over whom they domineer, be few or many.
        The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
        6
        These leading interests domineer, and have always domineered, over the whole.
        The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
        7
        He is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, courageous, skilful, but inclined to domineer.
        Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot
        8
        What right has he to domineer over me in that way?
        The Way We Live Now
        9
        And how she does domineer over that poor brother of hers!
        Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
        10
        The Pride of that haughty People was to domineer over the rest of Mankind.
        The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4
        11
        All you must do the same and not govern, but domineer by universal oppression.
        Select Speeches of Kossuth
        12
        But a book or a play has no such right to domineer over us.
        By the Christmas Fire
        13
        He went after me, to bully and domineer me, next.
        Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
        14
        How can you let her give herself such airs and domineer over you so?
        The Fortunes of the Farrells
        15
        Are you going to let your mother domineer over you?
        Little By Little; or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
        16
        If I shy my boots at a fellow's head, is he likely to domineer?
        Trumps
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        Spanish
        dominar
        Domineer through the time
        Domineer across language varieties
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