All 4 Uses of
dominate
in
Cujo
- The shop was dominated by Steve's stripping vat, a corrugated iron pot that looked big enough to boil an entire congregation of missionaries at one time.†
dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
- The living room was dominated by a big old Zenith black-and-white TV he had rescued from the Naples dump.†
- But of the three, the dominant feeling, the overriding emotion, was terrible fright.
*dominant = most powerful
- The dominant image was the bloody sawdust, sawdust which had gone the dark color of natural-casing franks.†
dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
Definitions:
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(1)
(dominate) to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, domination can refer to a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.