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English
Etymology
From Middle French tyranniser, equivalent to tyranny + -ise.
Verb
tyrannise (third-person singular simple present tyrannises, present participle tyrannising, simple past and past participle tyrannised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tyrannize.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm , London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Verb
tyrannise
- inflection of tyranniser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative