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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tyrannise .
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Examples
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If you believe the more excitable conservative papers, we live in a country tyrannised by health and safety fanatics.
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The problem lies in being unable (or unwilling) to distinguish which groups are genuinely oppressed and tyrannised (is that a word?) - they all get lumped together: Tibet, Darfur, South Africa, Palestine ... all seen as victims of evil imperial powers.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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They tyrannised over me whom they confined in place
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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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Give it but another shake, and the prodigious structure of imposture and wickedness which had tyrannised for ages over human reason, would crumble into atoms.
The Biblicals 2007
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For the last two weeks I have been tyrannised by somebody else's list.
Hair pins The List Writer 2007
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These two had tyrannised the area during the rule of the Awami League; the elections came, and this time the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won, so the siblings abandoned the League and joined the BNP.
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For the last two weeks I have been tyrannised by somebody else's list.
Archive 2007-06-01 The List Writer 2007
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The allies are tyrannised over by the governor and tyrannised over by the ten commissioners set up by Lysander over every city. 227 And to come lastly to the great king.
Hellenica 2007
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In this case it is: young black liberal deputy head against old fart Christian with no legal leg to stand on, tyrannised by vengeful 12 year-olds who couldn't manage to get him on a molesting charge.
Teacher Sacked for Saying "Most Suicide Bombers are Muslims" 2007
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