MEANING
1. To exercise commanding or controlling influence over someone or something.
2. To be the most prominent or influential feature of something.
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Words that belong together
- dominate a group
- dominate a decision
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Her authority dominated the meeting before she spoke.
The threat dominated every decision they made that night.
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Word forms
- Base
- dominate
- Past tense
- dominated
- Past participle
- dominated
- Present participle
- dominating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- dominate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are dominating
- Present perfect
- have/has dominated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been dominating
- Past
- dominated
- Past continuous
- was/were dominating
- Past perfect
- had dominated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been dominating
- Future
- will dominate
- Future continuous
- will be dominating
- Future perfect
- will have dominated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been dominating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: dominate; dominates; dominated; dominated; dominating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: dominates.
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