tyrannise

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See also: tyrannisé

English

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Etymology

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From Middle French tyranniser, equivalent to tyranny +‎ -ise.

Verb

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tyrannise (third-person singular simple present tyrannises, present participle tyrannising, simple past and past participle tyrannised)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tyrannize.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm [], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.

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Pronunciation

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tyrannise

  1. inflection of tyranniser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative