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Definition
to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
- As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me.Chapter 1 (89% in)
dominate = control or strongly influence
- An ecstasy of happiness dominated her.Chapter 5 (45% in)
- They love being dominated.Chapter 6 (71% in)
- I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.Chapter 7 (13% in)
- He wondered if he would ever be so dominated by the personality of a friend.Chapter 7 (84% in)
- But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to starve them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic.Chapter 9 (18% in)
- His dominant intellectual passion was for science.Chapter 12 (30% in)
- Campbell felt dominated by him.Chapter 12 (90% in)
There are no more uses of "dominate" in Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version.
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