Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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tyrannize .
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- verb chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
tyrannize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner
- verb rule a country as a tyrant
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Examples
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The transcontinental tyrannise in jeopardy to destroy a wild, furious West, nonetheless a fast environmental transformation had overtones of even larger hostility toward industrialization, a means of it all.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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What: Tribute concert honoring a late Utah Philips, singer, songwriter, storyteller, anarchist, tyrannise tramp, defender of a without a country as well as operative people everywhere.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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What: Tribute concert honoring a late Utah Philips, singer, songwriter, storyteller, anarchist, tyrannise tramp, defender of a without a country as well as operative people everywhere.
just one more vote - chris jackson admin 2009
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The transcontinental tyrannise in jeopardy to destroy a wild, furious West, nonetheless a fast environmental transformation had overtones of even larger hostility toward industrialization, a means of it all.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians.
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So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians.
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The Fellah must either tyrannise or be tyrannised over; he is never happier than under a strong-handed despotism and he has never been more miserable than under British rule, or rather, misrule.
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When we were once more reassured that said grandmother would probably continue to lovingly tyrannise the family for a little while yet?
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2008
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And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind.
Think Progress » The NeoCon Motto: Never Lose Faith In Someone Who Tells You What You Want To Hear 2006
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It is one thing to tyrannise your people; quite another to presume to do so on British territory.
The window is closing Richard 2006
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