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  • She completely dominates her boyfriend.
    dominates = controls
  • Some expect Africanized bees to dominate European bees in semitropical regions.
    dominate = be most abundant
  • We have no intention of letting you dominate unfairly.  (source)
    dominate = control; or be most influential
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  • "You dominated those horsemen with the way you looked at them," he said.  (source)
    dominated = controlled
  • Sometimes they're inherited from one parent carrying the dominant gene.  (source)
    dominant = controlling or most influential
  • Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination.  (source)
    domination = having power over others
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • I was afraid that your hot head might dominate your good heart.  (source)
    dominate = overpower
  • This celebration was the first time in days that they could simply enjoy one another's company without the events of February seventh dominating the conversation.  (source)
    dominating = controlling (most influencing)
  • Dominance hierarchies enhance stability in natural populations, and some less natural, Kya thought.  (source)
    Dominance = relating to the amount of influence or power
  • The same face dominates the Erudite library; it is plastered across every article Erudite releases.  (source)
    dominates = is conspicuous everywhere in
  • In addition, Adam taught himself to shoot using his nondominant left eye.†  (source)
    nondominant = not controlling; or not most influential or powerful
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nondominant means not and reverses the meaning of dominant. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • In the past few months, he'd already lost an on-air bet with the traffic guy that resulted in him having to perform an embarrassing (and thank God, not complete) striptease at a local dance club, attended about a hundred contest-winner cocktail parties, and wrestled a man named the Dominator at the Hilton for charity.†  (source)
    Dominator = one who controls; or most influential or powerful
  • He was, fortunately, thanks to Gant and Eliza, a creature that was dominantly masculine in its sex, but in all his life, either at home or in school, he had seldom known victory.†  (source)
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