Tyrannize

Word TYRANNIZE
Character 9
Hyphenation tyr an nize
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Tyrannize"

What do we mean by tyrannize?

To treat tyrannically; oppress. intransitive verb

To exercise absolute power. intransitive verb

To rule as a tyrant. intransitive verb

To act as a tyrant; exercise tyrannical power; rule despotically or cruelly: used of persons, with over before an object.

Hence To have a tyrannical influence; exercise oppressive restraint; maintain arbitrary control: used of things, commonly with over.

To rule, treat, or affect tyrannically; act the tyrant to or over.

To make tyrannically oppressive; convert into an instrument of tyranny.

Also spelled tyrannise.

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

To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress. transitive verb

To oppress someone verb

To rule as a tyrant verb

Rule a country as a tyrant verb

Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner verb

To oppress (someone).

To rule as a tyrant.

It is a WOW word for cruel. Urban Dictionary

A SEXY 5'9 starting cornerback for #1 college football team LSU. he goes by nicknames TM7 and of course the HONEY BADGER. One of the best players at LSU. Up for a heisman. Failed a Drug test for smoking weed and got suspended from the Auburn game. Urban Dictionary

What you call someone when they are in a position of power and abuse that power and can be seen as a tyrant or very corrupt person. Urban Dictionary

1.Honey Baddger. 2.A kick-ass football player for Louisiana State University. 3. The ability to take what you want because you want it, with or without kicking ass in the process. Urban Dictionary

The next step up from a Personal Jinx. Each person jinxes the other simultaneously until one pulls out the dreaded Tyrannical Jinx. Urban Dictionary

A company bent on nothing but evil and greed, with no morals or sanity. see 4Kids Urban Dictionary

A person who works in accounting and calls about purchases made on credit cards and shares an office with another person in accounting. She works in Great Plains a lot and does some report writing in Crystal Reports. She also keeps up with the blackberry and cell phones and the bills. Urban Dictionary

The part of the government that consists of the school board and a superintendent. Urban Dictionary

(Invented by Kat Timpf on Gutfeld!): a city or county or locale falling apart specifically due to the buffoonishly idiotic government policies and the 3 plagues of social work Urban Dictionary

The government isn't "Not tyrannical" because it is just. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tyrannize

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The word "tyrannize" in example sentences

"It is utterly impossible that they who live in the administration of the petty despotism of a slave community, whose minds have been warped and polluted by that contamination, should not lose that respect for their fellow creatures over whom they tyrannize, which is essential in the nature and moral being of man, to rescue them from the abuse of power over their prostrate fellow creatures." ❋ Unknown (1839)

They had decided against the idea on the grounds that rich Chinese would "tyrannize" the poor Chinese and treat them far worse than did the Dutch. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You are one of the people who want to tyrannize the minority for your own purposes — whether they be for your enjoyment, for your economic gain, or for the enlargement of your political clout. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it is absolutely true that those from the smallest states, with the largest populations, and the least amount of public land are the ones who wish so fervently to tyrannize the public land that is found plentifully in the western, more rural states, and to dictate how those living in these states can and cannot live their lives and do their jobs, or even if they can do their jobs at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then in the second book, the resiliency of the Commonwealth's institutions is amply demonstrated by the gentry's initially accepting the Swedish invasion with an attitude of "it doesn't matter who's king" (consistent with their republican outlook) and then rising against and throwing out Charles Gustav as soon as it becomes clear that he means to tyrannize them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But they had no right to tyrannize over others, and tie them down to their own ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was too gentle to tyrannize over her playfellow, yet she had ruled him abjectly, except when in canoe, or on horse or surf-board, at which times he had taken charge and she had rendered obedience. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to Darby, the Antichrist is a satanic figure who would tyrannize the world for seven years, unleashing his fury especially against the Jews and the state of Israel. ❋ Richard T. Hughes (2011)

It does absolutely nothing it was intended to do and just gives the judicial nobility another weapon to tyrannize against any dissent to their divinity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Garner shows us how illness confers power and how it can tyrannize an otherwise healthy household. ❋ Lionel Shriver (2011)

I keep flashing back to blockbuster movies with Will Smith and Shia Labeouf where the big bad military types get control of all of our information and use it to tyrannize the innocent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

David Melrose is an aging sadist whose response to the decline of the British aristocracy is to tyrannize his wife and son, the only people over whom he can still exercise droit du seigneur . ❋ Sam Sacks (2012)

Some of it is motivated by a theocratic desire to control and tyrannize other humans in the most depraved ways: to punish women who wish to feel the sun on their hair, or novelists who want to write freely. ❋ Johann Hari (2010)

Yet to tyrannize over such minorities, to browbeat and insult them, to call that government a democracy which makes majority votes an excuse for crushing ideas and individuality and self-development, is manifestly a peculiarly dangerous perversion of the real democratic ideal. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

When we live primarily from the false self, when the ego is in control, we tyrannize others and our own hearts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apparently we would also have an opportunity to explain why we hate Adobe and Flash, and why we bully the press and tyrannize developers and end users. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Farmer] [Larry] is [tyrannical] ❋ SchoolIsCrap09 (2015)

You: Who is [Tyrann Mathieu]? Me: Cornerback for LSU, yahh know... [the HONEY BADGER] You: why do they call him [the honey badger]? Me: because he don't give a shit. He just takes what he wants! ❋ Sks18 (2011)

"Tyrannical Tuck [banned] me for [saying] he was [corrupt]." "Tyrannical Tuck is a very corrupt man!" ❋ TheAmericanBreed (2017)

[Honey] Baddger Look dude, you had better [get out of my way] before [I do] a Tyrann Mathieu on your ass. ❋ Jabyron1 (2011)

Simon: Oh hey! [Muncie]: Oh hey! Simon: [Jinx]! Muncie: Jinx! Simon: [Personal Jinx]!!! Muncie: Personal Jinx!!! Simon: Tyrannical Jinx! It's tyrannical now!! ❋ Diana Sims (2007)

[4Kids] is an evil tyrannical company! ❋ ShinaGami (2005)

The tyrannical ogress in [accounting] can't find [a bill] from [Dove] Data products. ❋ Stantolliver (2007)

There is a [mob] of kids outside [the local] [evil tyrannical company's] office. ❋ Lancetankmen (2006)

A liberal city like [Portland] (Oregon), Seattle or San Francisco, will be a perfect example of a modern,liberal, [littered tyrannical wasteland]. Since crime isn't included in [the 3 plagues of social work], Chicago and New York City are not in my definition of littered tyrannical wasteland, at least not for now. ❋ Sexydimma (2021)

Hym "It's not tyrannical because the inevitable outcome of tyranny is [upheaval]. So, what do they do? Broaden the distribution of [culpability] for modern problems and the strife of their constituents. Maybe a little covert tyranny will go unnoticed. Maybe some overt tyranny whenever you can find an excuse. And as long as they condition us to be [averse] to violence we will remain passive. The status-quo will be maintained." ❋ Hym Iam (2023)

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