Meanings
present singular third person tyrannises · participle present tyrannising · participle past tyrannised · past tyrannised
- UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of tyrannize.
And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
verbrule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchtyranniser
- Englishtyrannise
From Middle French tyranniser, equivalent to tyranny + -ise.
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