Tyrannize

(verb.) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner; 'her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her'.

(verb.) rule a country as a tyrant.

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• My wife and I respect ourselves and one another too much ever to tyrannize or quarrel. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Will the creature feel any compunction at tyrannizing over them? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I know his wife, over whom he tyrannizes in trifles, guides him in matters of importance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

整理:罗德尼