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Meanings of tyrannize in inglês
Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner.
Sinônimos
Examples for "domineer"
Examples for "domineer"
1
You will domineer over her, and desire to have your own way.
2
He was too wise to make laws and to domineer in the abstract.
3
He breaks the power of past evil to domineer over us.
4
His great fault was that he must have someone to bully and domineer.
5
And this, whether the vassals over whom they domineer, be few or many.
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.
1
The extra fees will grind down the investors' returns over time, Silver said.
2
Leinster grind down their poorer relations and move up the Pro 12 table.
3
We're comfortable-andindependent, even though the rich grind down the poor.
4
The question is not: How shall I grind down price to the lowest?
5
Does it not break and grind down to powder the ramparts of coral?
Usage of tyrannize in inglês
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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