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Meanings of tyrannize in English
Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner.
Usage of tyrannize in English
1
They at present tyrannize over the whole country from Edlip to Hamah.
2
They tyrannize over them, and their tyranny spreads even to the Gentiles.
3
Her uncle had to tyrannize over her, to save the whole thing.
4
How the Incas began to tyrannize over the lands and inheritances
5
To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country.
6
Why do you let them tyrannize over you in this fashion?
7
No one in Ireland, he was resolved, should tyrannize except himself.
8
I shall tyrannize over you frightfully, and you will like it.
9
You'll have plenty of men creatures to tyrannize over in camp.
10
Tyrants tyrannize only over people of a certain cast of mind.
11
They pet and tyrannize over Daisy by turns, and she is getting spoilt.
12
I'm not going to have any man tyrannize over me, Wilton.
13
She had begun to tyrannize over him amiably, and she carried herself quite royally.
14
She will tyrannize over you, just as her mother does over the old man.
15
Never will it subjugate, and tyrannize over, and do violence to, your whole nature.
16
According to Napoleon, women tyrannize over us Americans, whereas we should tyrannize over them.
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