tyrannise

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)

1. 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

• Tyrsenian, tyrannies

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tyrannisent, tyrannises

Verb

tyrannise

1. inflection of tyranniser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative