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  • verb Present participle of tyrannize.

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Examples

  • Whether he is weak or ideologically sympathetic to the tyrannizing left has never been clear.

    Now Free Chile Mary Anastasia O 2010

  • I admit that I was thrilled when the US went into Iraq to liberate it from a despotic group that was tyrannizing Iraqis and sending $25,000 checks to the families of suicide bombers.

    Start With Small Victories | Managing Greatness 2009

  • The British invaded in order to shield moneyed interests close to the ruling regime in London, not to benignly prevent the Boers from tyrannizing the natives.

    Matthew Yglesias » Israel Deserves Better Defenders Than Andrew Roberts 2010

  • The boyish side of Buddy was absent, yet there was something childlike in his tyrannizing, and at his most demanding he was like a kid bellowing for candy.

    Beard 2010

  • Southerners looked upon the presence of federal officials as a continuing device for tyrannizing over a defeated people and upon the whiskey tax as a federal, and hence a “foreign,” monopoly.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant — society collectively over the separate individuals who compose it — its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries.

    duh pookie 2008

  • Southerners looked upon the presence of federal officials as a continuing device for tyrannizing over a defeated people and upon the whiskey tax as a federal, and hence a “foreign,” monopoly.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Southerners looked upon the presence of federal officials as a continuing device for tyrannizing over a defeated people and upon the whiskey tax as a federal, and hence a “foreign,” monopoly.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant — society collectively over the separate individuals who compose it — its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries.

    duh pookie 2008

  • An upperclassman, big and strong for a seventeen-year-old, he gets his kicks out of hurting and tyrannizing the smaller boys, even “roasting” Tom over an open fire.

    Introduction to Flashman 2009

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