Domineer

Definition: Domineer

Domineer

Verb

1. Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner; "her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her".

Date "domineer" was first used: 1588. (references)

Note: Domineer \Dom`i*neer"\, intransitive verb. t. [imperative past participle Domineered; present participle verb or noun Domineering.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	DOMINEER. To reprove or command in an insolent or haughty manner. Don't think as how you shall domineer here. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonym: Domineer

Synonym: tyrannize (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insolence	Domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over.
Severity	Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Domineer

English words defined with "domineer": Domineered, domineering ♦ Overlead, Overoffice ♦ To play rex. (references)

Etymologies containing "domineer": Overlead, Overoffice. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be, where there is no law: but freedom is not, as we are told, a liberty for every man to do what he lists: (for who could be free, when every other man's humour might domineer over him?) but a liberty to dispose, and order as he lists, his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property, within the allowance of those laws under which he is, and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "domineer": domineer over. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "domineer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tregohem autoritar, tiranizoj (tyrannize), sundoj si tiran. (various references)

Arabic		‏إستبد (tyrannize). (various references)

Bulgarian		тиранизирам (boss, tyrannize), налагам се (bulk, lay down the law), превъзхождам (beat, cap, exceed, extinguish, outbalance, outclass, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outrival, outstrip, out-top, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overmatch, overpass, overtop, surpass, transcend), потискам (clamp, depress, drive back, flatten, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, quench, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down), доминирам (command, dominate, overlord). (various references)

Czech		pánovat. (various references)

Farsi		مستبدانه حکومت کردن (Tyrannize), تحکم کردن , سلطه جوءی کردن . (various references)

French		se montrer autoritaire, agir en maître. (various references)

German		tyrannisieren (browbeat, bully, bully about, bully around, bullying, to browbeat, to domineer, to tyrannize, tyrannize). (various references)

Greek		καταδυναστεύω (oppress), διευθύνω (address, boss, conduct, direct, manage, route, run (= manage), steer, train, wend). (various references)

Hebrew		לר�"ות (castigate, punish, rule, tyrannize). (various references)

Hungarian		uralkodik (dominate, led, master, overrule, prevail, reign, rule the roost, to be master of oneself, to bear sway, to lead, to prevail among in, to rule, to surmount, to sway), önkényeskedik (to play the tyrant). (various references)

Indonesian		menghambakan (treat as a servant). (various references)

Italian		tiranneggiare (bully, tyrannise, tyrannize), spadroneggiare (swagger). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		威張り散らす (to domineer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いばりちらす (to domineer). (various references)

Manx		kioneysagh (assertive, commanding, dominating, high-handed). (various references)

Pig Latin		omineerday

Portuguese		dominar (come over, command, conquer, control, cover, dominate, enthral, enthrall, govern, have command of, lick, live out, lord, manage, master, outmatch, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpass, overpower, quell, rein, rein in, repress, restrain, rule, subdue, subject, subjugate, surmount, vanquish, wield), tiranizar (crush, oppress, tyrannize), imperar (govern, reign). (various references)

Romanian		tiraniza (tyrannize). (various references)

Russian		тиранить (tyrannize), господствовать (command, dominate, get the upper hand, have the upper hand, overlord, overrule, prevail, reign), главенствовать (dominate), властвовать (rule), действовать деспотически. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dominirati (command, dominate, prevail), vladati (govern, reign, rule). (various references)

Spanish		dominar a (grip, harness, quell, school), tiranizar (bully, dragoon, ride, tyrannize), encabezar (fortify, generalize, head, lead, lead on, swing the lead, top). (various references)

Swedish		dominera (dominate, override, overrule, predominate). (various references)

Thai		ครอบงำ (domineering, dwell in, reach). (various references)

Turkish		zorbalık etmek (bully, overbear), hakimiyeti altına almak, hükmetmek (adjudge, assume, award, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, bestride, command, decide on, dominate, govern, make an award, overrule, reckon, rule, rule over, sway), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references)

Ukrainian		височіти (overpeer, predominate, tower), правити деспотично, попихати (slave). (various references)

Welsh		tra-awdurdodi (lord it over). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dominari. (various references)
Dutch	700-Modern	domineren. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "domineer": domineered, domineering, domineeringly, domineeringness, domineeringnesses, domineers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Domineer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dominees, dominer, dominie, Dominy, Dromineer, Dunsinea, ominer, Tominey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "domineer" (pronounced dÄ'muni"r)
4	-u n i" r	auctioneer, bioengineer, conventioneer, electioneer, engineer, mutineer, pioneer, reengineer, souvenir, veneer.
3	-n i" r	near, Rainier, sneer.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: emeroid, ermined, minored, moderne.
	-2 letters: denier, dinero, domine, dormie, dormin, emerod, emodin, ermine, ironed, mender, merino, minder, modern, monied, moreen, nereid, nimrod, normed, omened, oreide, redone, reined, remend, remind, rodmen.
	-3 letters: demon, denim, diene, dimer, diner, donee, drone, eider, emend, ender, enorm, erode, irone, merde, mined, miner, minor, mired, moire, monde, monie, redon.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: domineers, modernise, modernize, overmined.
	+2 letters: domineered, echinoderm, endodermis, endometria, entodermic, misnomered, modernised, modernises, modernized, modernizer, modernizes, recombined, redemption, reinformed, remodeling, sermonized.
	+3 letters: coredeeming, divorcement, domineering, echinoderms, embordering, encrimsoned, endometrial, endometrium, endothermic, hemosiderin, indorsement, misdemeanor, misenrolled, misgoverned, misoriented, misreckoned, modernities, modernizers, mongrelized, predominate, premonished, reconfirmed, redemptions, reembodying, remediation, remodelling, remoistened, remonetized, renominated.
	+4 letters: aeromedicine, commanderies, countermined, densitometer, densitometry, determinator, divertimento, divorcements, embroidering, endodermises, endometritis, endomorphies, endothermies, hemosiderins, impersonated, imponderable, improvidence, indorsements, misdemeanors, monodisperse, morbidnesses, overinformed, predominance, predominated, predominates, premoistened, prenominated, radioelement, recommending, redemptioner, remediations, renormalized, unmodernized, ventromedial.
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