Dominated Dominate Conversation Lot Meetings Verb Bre ˈdɒmɪneɪt

• as a child he was dominated by his father.
• he tended to dominate the conversation.
• she always says a lot in meetings, but she doesn't dominate.
• the train crash dominated the news.

dominate

1. to control or have a lot of influence over somebody/something, especially in an unpleasant way
• As a child he was dominated by his father.
• He tended to dominate the conversation.
• She always says a lot in meetings, but she doesn't dominate.
2. to be the most important or noticeable feature of something
• The train crash dominated the news.
3. to be the largest, highest or most obvious thing in a place
• The cathedral dominates the city.
4. to play much better than your opponent in a game
• Arsenal dominated the first half of the match.

Extra Examples

• She always says a lot in meetings, but she doesn’t dominate.
• She was a boisterous girl with a loud voice who always dominated the conversation.
• The insurance market is totally dominated by the private pension organizations.
• This is an attempt to control the multinational giants who dominate the chemical industry.
• United completely dominated the first half of the game.
• His work increasingly dominates his life.
• She completely dominated the conversation.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they dominate
• he / she / it dominates
• past simple dominated
• past participle dominated
• -ing form dominating

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: from Latin dominat- ‘ruled, governed’, from the verb dominari, from dominus ‘lord, master’.