tyrannize
verb (used without object)
to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed byover ).
tyrannise
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a variation of
tyrannize.
Example Sentences
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“I certainly never had any musical standard to tyrannise me,” he once said.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2016
How the squire can let that man tyrannise over the estate as he does, I cannot conceive.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
They must have quarrelled, he said to himself rather angrily—Flossy had probably tried to tyrannise, and the girl had resented her interference.
From A Life Sentence A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
A man may be Honourable and Reverend both, and yet not be strong enough to tyrannise over his mother-in-law and lay down the law in her house.
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
He taught him to ride and to shoot, and to tyrannise over his six maiden aunts, who all took a hand in bringing him up.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
