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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It was the galloping of horse—the beat of hoofs, individualized presently to the ear—with that thunderous, swift, impetuous advance that so domineers over the imagination, quickens the pulse, shakes the courage.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
Death, indeed, domineers over everything but the forms of the Exchequer.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
His giving a hundred a year to Bell won't make you comfortable in this house if he still domineers over you.
From The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
And it comprises the whole reality as well as the human activity which domineers it.
From Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various
So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbors as though they were dependents and buffoons.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
