tyrannize

• Verbe utilisé pour désigner l'action de gouverner ou d'exercer le pouvoir de manière cruelle, oppressive ou injuste.

A verb used to indicate the act of ruling or exercising power in a cruel, oppressive, or unjust manner.

1. Rule as a tyrantC1formal

   To govern a country or state in a cruel, oppressive, and autocratic manner.

   Régner en tyran

   • The dictator tyrannized the nation for decades.
   • History remembers leaders who tyrannized their people.
   • The king tyrannized his subjects without mercy.

   Synonymesdomineerenslaveoppresssubjugate

2. Oppress or dominate cruellyC1formal

   To exercise power over someone in a cruel, unfair, or autocratic way.

   tyranniser

   • The boss tyrannized his employees with impossible deadlines.
   • She felt tyrannized by her controlling partner.
   • The older students tyrannized the younger ones in the schoolyard.

   Synonymesbullydominateenslaveoppressoverbearpersecuterepresssubjugatesuppress

   Antonymesempowerfreeliberate