tyrannize

Other forms of tyrannize

past tense

tyrannized·

present participle

tyrannizing·

third person

tyrannizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tyrannize

What does tyrannize mean?

tyrannize means "rule a country as a tyrant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tyrannize?

tyrannize has 3 syllables: ty-ran-nize. The stress falls on "ty".

What is another word for tyrannize?

Close synonyms include tyrannise, grind down, tyrannise, domineer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tyrannize a common word?

tyrannize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.