domineer
verb (used with or without object)
to rule arbitrarily or despotically; tyrannize.
domineers
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present tense formof domineer (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The picturesque, in short, domineers over English tragedy; the sculpturesque, or the statuesque, over the Grecian.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
There are three whose life is no life:—He who lives at another's table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
He domineers over freshmen when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of cues and cees, and some broken Latin which he has learnt at his bin.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
But I have omitted to speak of a very prominent character, the Pardoner, the Age’s Knave, who always commands and domineers over the high and low vulgar.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
A pure idea, without a material hand or weapon, domineers over the greatest empire under the sun, in spite of the whole power of that empire armed to crush it.
From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
