English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "oorheersing" is om geneig te wees om arbitrêre en oorheersende beheer oor ander uit te oefen, of om baasspelerig of beheersend op te tree. 'n Oorheersende persoon word dikwels gesien as iemand wat probeer om ander op 'n aggressiewe en intimiderende wyse te beheer en te oorheers. Die term kan ook gebruik word om 'n persoon te beskryf wat hul mag of gesag gebruik om ander te dwing om dinge te doen wat hulle nie wil doen nie.

Sentence Examples

  1. Franz was less enthusiastic but the count exercised over him also the ascendency a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering.
  2. Every man in her life had been a domineering horrible brute.
  3. In a split second it seemed that he went from domineering bullying to cowering and surprise.
  4. The old man was alarmed and Zoraida too, for the Moors commonly, and, so to speak, instinctively have a dread of the Turks, but particularly of the soldiers, who are so insolent and domineering to the Moors who are under their power that they treat them worse than if they were their slaves.
  5. Let us hasten to say that in private the genial side descended to the level of the other, so that generally the indulgent man disappeared to give place to the brutal husband and domineering father.
  6. Although he spouted a lot of hurtful and domineering things, it was becoming harder to see him as a cruel and heartless man.