Crossword-Solution: TYRANNIZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tyrannize | v. i. | 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. |
| Tyrannize | v. t. | To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “TYRANNIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Govern despotically | 1 answer |
| Play the dictator | 1 answer |
| Rule oppressively | 1 answer |
| rule a country as a tyrant | 1 answer |
| MAKE obedient | 6 answers |
| WALK all over | 16 answers |
| oppress | 45 answers |
| Railroad | 54 answers |
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Sentences with TYRANNIZE (5)
Hee with a crew, whom like Ambition joyns With him or under him to tyrannize, Marching from _Eden_ towards the West, shall finde The Plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boiles out from under ground, the mouth of Hell; Of Brick, and of that stuff they cast to build A Citie & Towre, whose top may reach to Heav’n; And get themselves a name, least far disperst In foraign Lands thir memorie be lost, Regardless whether good or evil fame.
The practical faculty was powerful in Bacon; but not, like his wit, so powerful as occasionally to usurp the place of his reason and to tyrannize over the whole man.
LIV The king, as wicked thoughts are most suspicious, Supposed too fast this tree of virtue grew, O blessed Lord! why should this Pharaoh vicious, Thus tyrannize upon thy Hebrews true? Who to perform his will, vile and malicious, Exiled these, and all the faithful crew, All that were strong of body, stout of mind, But kept their wives and children pledge behind.
Carl could not understand how she could carry her head so high, and attempt to tyrannize over his father and himself.
Now, the ladies being together under these circumstances, it was extremely natural that the discourse should turn upon the propensity of mankind to tyrannize over the weaker sex, and the duty that developed upon the weaker sex to resist that tyranny and assert their rights and dignity.
Quotes with TYRANNIZE (3)
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my view all teachers should be required to stop teaching at age thirty-two and not allowed to resume until they're sixty-five, so that they can live their lives, not teach them away - live lives full of ambiguity and transience and …
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen — that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugeni…
You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power — how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live — is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1972–2008).