Definition of domineer
intransitive verb
: to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control
transitive verb
: to tyrannize over
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The man is strong, domineering, and the lover of one of them.
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One such character, the domineering Martha Farnsworth, inspired her to seek out a new collaborator in Nicole Kidman.
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At 17, Adua flees Somalia – and her domineering father – chasing promises of film stardom.
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What: In this Alfred Hitchcock classic, a secretary (Leigh) who is on the run for embezzling, checks into the secluded Bates Motel, whose peculiar proprietor (Perkins) is manipulated by his domineering mother.
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Once again, Miss Cooper charitably intervenes — but will kindness prove enough to free the faux Major and the downtrodden Sybil from her domineering mother?
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Grace Hemingway is often seen as domineering and emasculating; Ernest claimed to hate her for her sanctimonious condemnation of his early fiction, and blamed her for his father’s suicide.
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The director focuses instead on racking up the tension and slowly unfolding new layers of John and Evelyn’s relationship, where the volatile John is the domineering force.
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Not only do the women in the factory perform achingly repetitive movements all day, their slave driver of a supervisor (a domineering Francisco Arcila) barks orders at them to work faster, without breaks.
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Origin and Etymology of domineer
Dutch domineren, from French dominer, from Latin dominari
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