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  • 111whop — Synonyms and related words: bang, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, batter, beat, beating, belabor, belt, biff, birch, blank, blow, bonk, bop, buffet, bulldoze, bump, burst, bust, cane, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, club, clump, coldcock,… …

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  • 112command — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Order of authority Nouns 1. command, commandment, order, ordinance, fiat, bidding, dictum, behest, call, beck, nod; direction, injunction, charge; instructions. Informal, say so. See authority, rule. 2.… …

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  • 113dominate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. govern, control; domineer, overbear, tyrannize; predominate, stand out. See authority, supremacy. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. rule, manage, control, dictate to, predominate, subject, subjugate, keep… …

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  • 114domineer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. tyrannize, overbear, bully. See insolence, severity. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. see dominate III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To command arrogantly : boss, dictate, dominate, order, rule,… …

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  • 115influence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Power to effect decision Nouns 1. influence, importance, weight, pressure, preponderance; predominance, predominancy (see superiority); power, sway; ascendancy; hegemony, reign, control, authority; bias …

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  • 116oppress — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. persecute, burden, crush, afflict, grieve, load, de press; overbear, compress, overtax, overburden; tyrannize. See malevolence, badness, severity, subjection, wrong. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. trouble …

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  • 117pride — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sense of self worth Nouns 1. pride, hauteur; dignity, self respect, self esteem, self sufficiency, reserve. 2. (sympton of pride) arrogance, insolence; ostentation; vanity, vainglory, crest, airs, high… …

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  • 118haughtiness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. insolence, aloofness, snobbishness; see arrogance . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being arrogant: arrogance, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, lordliness, overbear ingness, presumption, pride, pridefulness,… …

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  • 119overbore — past of overbear …

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  • 120overborne — past participle of overbear …

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