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What is another word for tyrannizes?

Pronunciation: [tˈɪɹɐnˌa͡ɪzɪz] (IPA)

Tyrannizes, in its simplest definition, means to exercise power or control over someone in a cruel and oppressive manner. Some synonyms for this word include oppresses, subjugates, dominates, and bullies. Other similar terms include intimidates, coerces, and terrorizes. These words all describe a situation where someone is using their power to control or manipulate another person or group. Some more informal synonyms for tyrannizes might include "ruling with an iron fist" or "being a dictator." Regardless of the word chosen, the idea behind it remains the same: a person or group is exerting control over others in an oppressive manner, often causing fear and discomfort.
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How they first came together I cannot imagine; but they have lived together for many years; and the abigail's temper being tart and encroaching, and her ladyship's easy and yielding, the former has got the complete upper hand, and tyrannizes over the good lady in secret.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
And she patronizes-or matronizes-me and tyrannizes over Ambrose: so the world is really succeeding at last.
"The Mettle of the Pasture"
James Lane Allen
Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato

Famous quotes with Tyrannizes

  • Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
    Marquis de Sade
  • Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
    Marquis de Sade
  • The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean."
    David Foster Wallace

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