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# dominate

«dominate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To have power or control over someone or something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (dominate, dominates, dominated, dominating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To have power or control over someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#m1)

2) To be the biggest, strongest or most important part of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#m2)

3) (sport) To play much better than the other team for most of a game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#m3)

4) To be the tallest or most noticeable thing in a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history, empires dominated other lands; in sport, a team dominates a match; in science, a dominant gene shows in the child; in everyday life, one topic can dominate the news or a conversation; phrases: «dominate the game», «dominate the skyline».

### examples

- The castle dominated the little town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#x1)
- Our team dominated the match but still lost 1–0. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#x2)
- One loud boy tried to dominate the group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#x3)
- The story of the flood dominated the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#x4)
- Rome dominated much of Europe for centuries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#x5)
- Bright red dominates the painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#x6)
- Lions dominate the African grassland food chain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Adjective: dominant; noun: domination, dominance. Pronounced DOM-in-ate. In genetics, a dominant trait shows even if only one parent passes it on.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dominate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dominate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.