dominate

IPA: dˈɑmʌneɪt

(historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.

To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
To enjoy a commanding position in some field
To overlook from a height.
(computing, graph theory, linguistics) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.

Examples of "dominate" in Sentences

The artist dominates the entrepreneur.
People tend to have one side of their brain dominate their thought patterns.
Says he's going back down to 147 so he can once again dominate his opponents.
The 55th-ranked Austrian started to dominate from the baseline and won the next five games.
However, as the demographics of the U.S. change, the Republicans will dominate is so few states that they will be irrelevant.
Read your dictionary and you will see this as a definition of the word dominate: To control, govern, or rule by superior authority or power.
Kidd factor: Jason Kidd can dominate from the perimeter almost as well as O'Neal can from inside and is one of the smartest players in the league.
There will be no repeat of the stunt by Irish bookmakers Paddy Power which saw a giant sign bearing their name dominate the Cheltenham skyline during the March Festival.
` ` Coach Hatchell wanted us to dominate from the beginning, and that's what we did, '' said Larkins, who finished with 14 points, six rebounds, five steals and six assists.
Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere, where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.
As galling as it is to realize that the BRR and its registered authors and publishers will derive income from millions of books they didn ` t write or publish, it is even more galling that copyright maximalists will almost certain dominate the BRR governing board.