predominate
/pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/ verb C2- To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
- To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
- To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
He/she/it predominates · Past predominated · Past participle predominated · -ing form predominating
Verb forms
- Base form
- predominate
- He/she/it
- predominates
- Past
- predominated
- Past participle
- predominated
- -ing form
- predominating
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In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
Darcy, by the feelings which prevailed on his entering the room; and then, though but a moment before she had believed her wishes to predominate, she began to regret that he came.
In all well-organized brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning.
Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long.
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