Dominated
['dɔmineitid]
Definition
(adj.) controlled or ruled by superior authority or power .
(adj.) harassed by persistent nagging .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dominate
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Examples
- You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Such plants had already been in evidence in the later levels of the (American Cretaceous) Mesozoic, but now they dominated the scene altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They appeal to history for confirmation: have not all social changes, they ask, meant the emergence of a new economic class until it dominated society? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Nomadism from Central Asia dominated the known world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A pompous and unintelligent classical pretentiousness dominated them, and they dominated the schools of the middle and upper classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For Gerald was in reaction against Charity; and yet he was dominated by it, it assumed supremacy in the inner life, and he could not confute it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a high snowy mountain and it dominated the valley but it was so far away that it did not make a shadow. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Ottomans organized a standing military force, the Janissaries, rather on the lines of the Mamelukes who dominated Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The strong, masterful personality of Holmes dominated the tragic scene, and all were equally puppets in his hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- All that is dominated. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was only now and then that some fine personality or some group of fine personalities dominated it in that direction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a century, however, through its monopoly of the gold and silver of America, it dominated the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was looking the woman straight in the face and he was neither dominated by her nor seemed to be much affected by her. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fierce vigour of the Commune dominated it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet because he did NOT act on the other ideal, it dominated him, he was dying of chagrin because he must forfeit it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That bracing up was only a part of the large egotistical schemes that dominated him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those four idols really dominated the minds of the Commission, and without them the report cannot be understood. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The philosophy of learning has been unduly dominated by a false psychology. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From the outset the Bedouin aristocrats of Mecca dominated the new empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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