All despotize synonyms

verb despotize

• castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• badger — A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
• bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
• coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
• intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
• lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
• oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
• bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
• bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
• bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
• cow — A cow is a large female animal that is kept on farms for its milk. People sometimes refer to male and female animals of this species as cows.
• domineer — Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way.
• dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
• frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
• overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
• overbear — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
• threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
• tyrannise — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
• tyrannize — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
• lord it over — (Idiomatic) VT To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.
• push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
• browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
• persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• terrorise — to fill or overcome with terror.
• terrorize — to fill or overcome with terror.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• buffalo — A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
• menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
• showboat — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
• swagger — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
• afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
• maltreat — to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse: to maltreat a prisoner.
• overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
• pick on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• prey on — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
• subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• trample — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.