All 4 Uses of
dominate
in
The Notebook
- As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.
*dominate = to control or be most powerful
- It was too much, in her opinion, but their engagement was news and had dominated the social pages since they had announced their plans six months ago.†
dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
- So once again, just as I do every Day, I begin to read the notebook aloud, so that she can hear it, in the hope that the miracle that has come to dominate my life will once again prevail.†
- Allison Nelson, twenty-nine years old and engaged, a socialite, searching for answers she needed to know, and Noah Calhoun, the dreamer, thirty-one, visited by the ghost that had come to dominate his life.†
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.