Meaning of 'tyrannize' in Chichewa is: tyrannize

tyrannize: tyrannize

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akamenyane, chochititsa manyazi ndi chopusa, kupsyinjika, zimaipitsa, nadzazunza, kuletsa, kuzunza, kukhala wosamvera.

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Verb(1) rule a country as a tyrant(2) rule or exercise power over (somebody

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(1) The next question he had for me concerned who ├ö├ç├┐they├ö├ç├û were and why I was allowing them to tyrannize me.(2) Antifederalists feared that a powerful national government might tyrannize the people and displace the important power of self-government they associated with state government.(3) Some of these tyrannies have moved beyond tyrannising their own people to threatening their neighbours and their regions.(4) You have security, and no landlord could tyrannise you.(5) The ├ö├ç├┐rule of law├ö├ç├û would give way to a ├ö├ç├┐rule of men├ö├ç├û who tyrannized their wives and their compatriots.(6) No hungry person ever pined for deconstruction; no tyrannised person ever felt they were trapped in a language game.(7) Tyrants should be left free to tyrannise their own people(8) Here Doyle's rhetoric begins to echo the US men's movement that campaigns bitterly - if rather quietly - about women controlling the domestic agenda, and tyrannising men with their strident demands for independence.(9) I am not saying it to you simply to tyrannise you, if I am wrong, I want to know where I am wrong.(10) Though I wouldn't have been able to express it at the time, this story of the shy, ungraceful daughter tyrannized by a contemptuous father struck home, struck a chord in my home.(11) Every time Duritz tyrannizes her, Janet responds with amusing riffs.(12) It is a sad fact that from early childhood we are tyrannised by the moral myth that it is right, proper and good to leap out of bed the moment we wake in order to set about some useful work as quickly and cheerfully as possible.(13) Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality.(14) The first of these two parts depicts a local hood who tyrannizes a family, until, having finally had enough, the family stands in unison against him.(15) Our youth love luxury, they show disrespect for the elders, they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties from the table and tyrannise their teachers.(16) And by the way, tyrannized people DO write about being trapped in language-games, or have you never read an East European novel?