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Intransitive Predominate Eyes Eclipses Sex Felt Emotion Akin

word predominate
sentence In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.
definition [verb]
1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
[adjective]
Predominant.

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