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
But it was no part of Mackenzie’s plan to tyrannise over men.
From The Pioneers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
You shall no longer tyrannise over the Emperor's army and the Emperor's generals.
From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Felix Dahn
The desire of tyranny could scarcely be excited in the individual; the power to tyrannise would certainly not be delegated by a society neither frenzied by inebriation, nor rendered impotent or irrational by disease.
From A Vindication of Natural Diet. by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
