domineer
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He could dominate and domineer musicians in a recording studio, once upon a time, but he couldn’t charm 12 people on a 2007 jury into believing his story.
From Time • Mar. 21, 2013
It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Overbear′ing, inclined to domineer, esp. in manner or conduct: haughty and dogmatical: imperious.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Lord Robert has been so used to domineer over men twice his age, on board ship, that he is more unbearable than any young man of rank I ever served.
From The Rival Crusoes The Ship Wreck also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Strickland, Agnes
The lawless characters within it, who might have been restrained by a firm and vigorous hand, now assert themselves, and the large clans with their powerful followings domineer and oppress the weaker ones.
From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)
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