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Definition of Domineer
1. Verb. Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner. "Sam cannot domineer Sue "; "Her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her"
Generic synonyms: Ballyrag, Boss Around, Browbeat, Bully, Bullyrag, Hector, Push Around, Strong-arm
Derivative terms: Tyrant
Definition of Domineer
1. v. i. & t. To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.
Definition of Domineer
1. Verb. To rule over or control arbitrarily or arrogantly; to tyrannize. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Domineer
1. to tyrannize [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: tyrannize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Domineer
Literary usage of Domineer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... there's no greater misery to a man than to let his wife domineer) to carry
her muff, dog, and fan, let her wear the breeches, lay out, spend, ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... there's no greater misery to a man than to let his wife domineer) to carry
her muff, dog, and fan, let her wear the breeches, lay out, spend, ..."
3. The Infallibility of the Church: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the by George Salmon (1888)
"Such a letter as this could clearly not be regarded as an attempt by Rome to domineer
... domineer ..."
4. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (1801)
"... who tyrannizes over France, and who feeks to domineer over the world. ART.
VI. ... domineer ..."
5. The New English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1886)
"appear in Nash about this time, as to bandy, pell mell, to humour, domineer,
button-hole, ... domineer ..."
6. Notes on Herodotus: Original and Selected from the Best Commentators by Dawson William Turner (1857)
"Schw., " if (thought they) these boys are already minded to aid each other against
the children of our legitimate wives and are now trying to domineer over ..."
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