Word Meanings - TYRANNIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince

Additional info about word: TYRANNIZE

To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TYRANNIZE)

• Domineer
• Lord
• tyrannize
• assume
• usurp

Related words: (words related to TYRANNIZE)

• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• USURPATURE
  Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
• DOMINEERING
  Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag. Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv.
• USURPATORY
  Marked by usurpation; usurping.
• ASSUMED
  1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
• USURPER
  One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it.
• USURPINGLY
  In a usurping manner.
• TYRANNIZE
  To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince
• ASSUME
  1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope. 2. To take for granted, or
• USURP
  To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. Another
• DOMINEER
  To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer.
• USURPATION
  1. The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also
• ASSUMENT
  A patch; an addition; a piece put on. John Lewis .
• REASSUME
  To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump"tion, n.
• SELF-ASSUMED
  Assumed by one's own act, or without authority.