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tyrannize (v.)
"rule despotically or cruelly; rule tyrannically," late 15c., from Middle French
tyranniser
(14c.), from
tyrannie
(see
tyranny
). Greek
tyrannizein
meant "to take the part of tyrants" in politics. Related:
Tyrannized
;
tyrannizing
.
