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UK
/dˈɒmɪnˌeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈdɑməˌneɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɑməˌneɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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used of a height or viewpoint
the balcony overlooking the ballroom
a commanding view of the ocean
looked up at the castle dominating the countryside -
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
an autocratic person
autocratic behavior
a rather aggressive and dominating character
managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
a bossy way of ordering others around
a swaggering peremptory manner -
most powerful or important or influential
D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe
the economically ascendant class
How To Use dominating In A Sentence
- We know from palynological evidence that farmers already inhabited the valley below the city around 4200 B.C., yet the oldest surface finds in the area were an Early Bronze Age ax and a pre-Hellenistic sherd in the fortress dominating the city. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Conclusions: Urban Development
- Her eyes were a light shade of blue, dominating her pale face.
- A fearless person could not be courageous, because courage is all about the mind dominating fear.
- Domestic issues are dominating in the hope the electorate have short memories and limited concentration.
- My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind. Flowers in the Desert
- As for visual cognition, in addition [to these two causal factors,] it requires an external object as the focal condition (dmigs-rkyen) for its arising, while the visual sensors [the sensorial cells] of the eyes are what are called the dominating condition (bdag-rkyen). What Is the Self, Does the Self Have a Beginning, Will It Have an End?
- God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
- Our target is to win the tournament by dominating all opponents in every facet of the game.
- At one time he was dominating over the party.
- As the track moves along, the static, rumbles, guitar notes, and drones all mix together, with the drone slowly building and dominating the proceedings.