What is another word for tyrannize?

Pronunciation: [tˈɪɹɐnˌa͡ɪz] (IPA)

Tyrannize is a word that is used to describe a person or group that exercises authoritarian power over others. There are several synonyms for this term that can be used to describe the same activity. These synonyms include oppress, dominate, control, subjugate, bully, intimidate, enslave, and rule with an iron hand. Each of these words carries a slightly different connotation, but they all refer to the same basic behavior of exercising power and control over others. Whether used in a political, social, or personal context, these synonyms all convey a sense of undue influence and power that is wielded without regard for the rights and freedoms of others.

What are the hypernyms for Tyrannize?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for tyrannize?

Tyrannize means to exercise absolute power over someone, and it is an undesirable trait. Therefore, a word with antonyms are necessary to express opposite meanings. The antonyms for "tyrannize" are words that define the opposite behavior, such as "emancipate," "liberate," "coddle," "indulge," "permit," "encourage," and "advance." Emancipate means to set someone free from bondage or oppression, while liberate refers to giving someone freedom or release from captivity. Coddle and indulge both mean to pamper or spoil someone, and permit means to allow someone to do something without interference. Encourage means to support or approve, and advance means to promote someone's progress.

What are the antonyms for Tyrannize?

Usage examples for Tyrannize

It wishes to tyrannize, yet exclaims against tyranny!
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Alas, how would envy, with all her poisonous serpents, fasten upon the triumphal car of a king who, by the great things he has already achieved, had given assurance of yet greater results, and now stoops to tyrannize over and oppress the weak and good, and cast them among the ruins of their temples of worship to weep and lament in despair!
"Berlin and Sans-Souci"
Louise Muhlbach
All good French servants are of the same stamp as Clairmont; they are devoted and intelligent, but they all think themselves cleverer than their masters, which indeed is often the case, and when they are sure of it they become the masters of their masters, tyrannize over them, and give them marks of contempt which the foolish gentlemen endeavour to conceal.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Famous quotes with Tyrannize

  • My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
    Pierre Corneille
  • As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
    Tench Coxe
  • The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
    Socrates
  • I am a libertine, but I am not a nor a , and since I am compelled to set my apology alongside my vindication, I shall therefore say that it might well be possible that those who condemn me as unjustly as I have been might themselves be unable to offset the infamies by good works as clearly established as those I can contrast to my errors. I am a libertine, but three families residing in your area have for five years lived off my charity, and I have saved them from the farthest depths of poverty. I am a libertine, but I have saved a deserter from death, a deserter abandoned by his entire regiment and by his colonel. I am a libertine, but at Evry, with your whole family looking on, I saved a child—at the risk of my life—who was on the verge of being crushed beneath the wheels of a runaway horse-drawn cart, by snatching the child from beneath it. I am a libertine, but I have never compromised my wife’s health. Nor have I been guilty of the other kinds of libertinage so often fatal to children’s fortunes: have I ruined them by gambling or by other expenses that might have deprived them of, or even by one day foreshortened, their inheritance? Have I managed my own fortune badly, as long as I have had a say in the matter? In a word, did I in my youth herald a heart capable of the atrocities of which I today stand accused?... How therefore do you presume that, from so innocent a childhood and youth, I have suddenly arrived at the ultimate of premeditated horror? No, you do not believe it. And yet you who today tyrannize me so cruelly, you do not believe it either: your vengeance has beguiled your mind, you have proceeded blindly to tyrannize, but your heart knows mine, it judges it more fairly, and it knows full well it is innocent.
    Marquis de Sade
  • Lord, give me the capacity of never praying, spare me the insanity of all worship, let this temptation of love pass from me which would deliver me forever unto You. Let the void spread between my heart and heaven! I have no desire to people my deserts by Your presence, to tyrannize my nights by Your light, to dissolve my Siberias beneath Your sun.
    Emil Cioran

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