tyrannize
tyrannise BrE

His parents' life had been tyrannized by a single act.

Feeling tyrannized, I stop for a drink on my way home.

She knew exactly how much that would tyrannize his soul.

Much of the time we see him through others he has tyrannized or exploited.

Was it just out of the temptation to tyrannize us?

American dance is obsessed with, or even tyrannized by, music.

In a family tyrannized by democracy, we embrace our leader.

"You must not tyrannize over them," he tried to instruct her.

We are tyrannized by verbiage and have lost our very soul.

They could be tyrannized, he was sure, in that they were no different from any other human.

American support of the junta that tyrannized Greece from 1967-1974 3.

Will the creature feel any compunction at tyrannizing over them?

Present-day statehood too often is allowed to tyrannize the past.

If the majority truly wanted to tyrannize the minority, he said, the courts could not stop it.

One benefit of your approach is that it prevents a majority from tyrannizing a minority.

They somehow go through life without being tyrannized by the completeness instinct.

Then she turned her head to face the brute who tyrannized her.

I used to watch as my mother was tyrannized at the hands of her hairdresser and manicurist.

Why do you let them tyrannize over you in this fashion?"

And the rebels will have some very tasty ideas of what to do to the folk who've tyrannized over them.

He is never tyrannized by the authenticity of what he imagines.

What sad prominence it gives to our human disposition to tyrannize over the weak!

And if you just tyrannize your child into submission, you may end up with a serious personality problem.

"She has tyrannized me ruthlessly since our mother died," he explained to Eloise.

Liberty/oppression, characterizes judgments in terms of whether subjects are tyrannized.

Firstly you won't be able to tyrannise me like you did poor old Anders, I'm not that weak.

You tyrannise over yourself, so constantly forget what you remember; you resist sense objects and show resistance to the faculties by believing or not.

MÄR-Heaven's predominant rebellious faction aiming to tyrannise over the entire world.

Muttu Virappa's rule was in general not noteworthy and he is said to have allowed his favourites to tyrannise the people unchecked.

When finally she becomes a mother-in-law she is entitled to tyrannise her daughter-in-law, reminding her that 'I have suffered in my time now it is your turn'.

They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties [food] at the table, cross their legs and tyrannise their teachers" (Socrates, fourth century BC)

Francesco had in the meantime settled down in the fortress, and, to be more free to tyrannise over Lucrezia and Beatrice, sent back to Rome Giacomo and his two other sons.

The Mameluke Beys who favour exclusively English commerce, whose extortions oppress our merchants, and who tyrannise over the unfortunate inhabitants of the Nile, a few days after our arrival will no longer exist.

But if there be in Europe a military State which has not the religion of Russia, yet has helped Russia to tyrannise over the Poles, that State cares not for religion, but for tyranny.

I think that Turkey has built up an internal mechanism and a system of external relations which is dominated by the idea of authority and it uses this to tyrannise its people - witness the terrible story of prisoners' suicides and much else besides.

By the regular practice of concentration (as to which there is no secret-- save the secret of perseverance) you can tyrannise over your mind (which is not the highest part of *you*) every hour of the day, and in no matter what place.