dominate

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Read your dictionary and you will see this as a definition of the word dominate: To control, govern, or rule by superior authority or power.

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  1. transitive verb To control, govern, or rule by superior authority or power: Successful leaders dominate events rather than react to them.
  2. transitive verb To exert a supreme, guiding influence on or over: Ambition dominated their lives.
  3. transitive verb To enjoy a commanding, controlling position in: a drug company that dominates the tranquilizer market.
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  • We don't permit any habitat to dominate, and we defer to the demands of each. —  The Chicago Blog
  • Read your dictionary and you will see this as a definition of the word dominate: To control, govern, or rule by superior authority or power. —  Sports News : CBSSports.com
  • This private power generates tremendous private wealth that is then used to control, dominate, and thwart our government and our right to govern ourselves. —  Dissident Voice
  • The Islamic supremacist agenda is encapsulated in the ancient dictum that "Islam must dominate, and not be dominated." —  Jihad Watch
  • When southwesterly winds dominate, the algae tend to remain offshore. —  innovations-report
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dominate:   dominating ·  dominated ·  dominates
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin dominārī, domināt-, to rule, from dominus, lord; see dem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin dominatus, past participle of dominari (later Italian dominare = French dominer = Spanish Portuguese dominar: see also domineer), rule, be lord, from dominus, lord, master: see dominus. Hence in comp. predominate.
 

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/ˈdɑmɪneɪt/
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