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domineer
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Word definitions for domineer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Domineer \Dom`i*neer"\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Domineered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Domineering .] [F. dominer, L. dominari: cf. OD. domineren to feast luxuriously. See Dominate , v. t.] To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To rule over or control arbitrarily or arrogantly; to tyrannize.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner; "her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her" [syn: tyrannize , tyrannise ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Dutch domineren "to rule" (16c.), from Middle French dominer , from Latin dominari "to rule, 'lord' it over" (see domination ). Shakespeare's usage is not the earliest in English. Related: Domineering .
Usage examples of domineer.
Even harder was accepting that his harsh, domineering father had acted from genuine concern rather than casual cruelty.
There were just no words to adequately express my disgust with either overprotective, pigheaded, domineering man.
The domineering phonation that belonged to Earth vanished, cut off by suddenly achieved distances best described as absurd.
Chicago who escaped a domineering mother, discovered Pickax and Derek, the most popular bachelor in town.
Edgar, her uncertainty of his intentions, her suspicions of his wished secession, the severe task she thought necessary to perform of giving him his liberty, with the anguish of a total inability to judge whether such a step would recall his tenderness, or precipitate his retreat, were suggestions which quickly succeeded, and, in a very short time, wholly domineered over every other.
They might be paternalistic, autocratic and domineering chauvinists, but she knew they truly cared about her.
The windows were large and domineering with intricate plasterwork giving a magisterial theme to the place.
I slumped down until the water filled my ears and I could no longer hear Rosil and Zofal debating whether in their experience women do or do not like men to be domineering.
She was the termagant, domineering Isabelle that he remembered, out to make him fall in with her wishes, to frighten him into doing her will.
The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis.
Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major - de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.
And how quickly he regained his domineering manner once it was slaked, the falsehearted craven.
The partners in illicit profits strode up the house steps, Mayberry acting with the rough air of a domineering sheriff, Chalmody with the important style of some dignitary.
Snake women urged a withdrawal from Walpi, and, to incite the men to action, carried their mealing-stones and cooking vessels to the summit of the mesa, where they desired the men to build new houses, less accessible to the domineering priests.
I am compelled to report that the boy Agrippa Postumus is inclined to display a savage, domineering and intractable temper.