tyrannise
- 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
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 Dahn, Felix
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 Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Don’t let any interested parties lead you to believe that we either do or wish to tyrannise.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
There were many men within and without the circle of her admirers whom she could snub capriciously and ruthlessly tyrannise over, but Arthur Claverton was not one of them, and this she knew full well.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
