Synonyms:
predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail
Meaning: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood"
Synonyms:
dominate
Meaning: be in control; "Her husband completely dominates her"
Synonyms:
dominate, master
Meaning: have dominance or the power to defeat over; "Her pain completely mastered her"; "The methods can master the problems"
Usage examples
He seemed to dominate the seated figure by his side.
I knew well enough that I should be able to dominate his thoughts as I had done hers.
Indeed, the gathering had at first the appearance of being a political one, so entirely did the Representative dominate it.
Assuming that there are unconscious tendencies in the psychic life, nothing is proved by the ability of the subject to show that their opposites dominate his conscious life.
She was an excitable, impressionable sort of girl, and when once I had obtained an entrance into her mind I found it the easiest thing in the world to dominate her thoughts.
And so they would always have remained in crude experience, if no cumulative reflection, no art, and no science had come to dominate and foreshorten that equable flow of substance, arresting it ideally in behalf of some rational interest.
I felt that once it was started the films would take their proper place and dominate the project, disinterested non-commercial films to be classed with the dramas so well stimulated by the great drama department under Professor Baker of Harvard.