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Meanings of tyrannise in English
Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner.
Usage of tyrannise in English
1
And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind.
2
But it was no part of Mackenzie's plan to tyrannise over men.
3
The minister of truth does not tyrannise over my reason, he enlightens it.
4
She liked those best whom she could most easily tyrannise over.
5
None should tyrannise over, nor should suffer tyranny from, the other.
6
I don't want to tyrannise-onlyto show you what I think.
7
I could throw it in his teeth when he attempts to tyrannise over me.
8
Recollect, the memory can tyrannise, as well as the imagination.
9
Restless and discontented, always thinking of herself, she wanted to be loved and to tyrannise.
10
No nation could tyrannise over another nation unless it were tyrannised over itself by some illusions.
11
Ridicule, which public opinion dreads more than anything, is ever at hand to tyrannise, and punish.
12
All which do give them an occasion to tyrannise over their Fellow-Creatures, which they call their Inferiors.
13
But the rich, if the community gives them rank, very often endeavour to insult and tyrannise over others.
14
But they had no right to tyrannise over others, and tie them down to their own procrustean bed.
15
It is the lesser light that desires to dazzle and bewilder his company, to tyrannise, to show off.
16
We need not be 'anvils but hammers.' We need not let outward circumstances dominate and tyrannise over us.
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Frequent collocations
Tyrannise through the time