All in the driver's seat synonyms

verb in the driver's seat

• 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.
• bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
• menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
• bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
• 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.
• 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.
• rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• swagger — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
• tyrannize — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
• reign — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
• preponderate — to exceed something else in weight; be the heavier.
• threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
• dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
• prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
• browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
• predominate — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
• overbear — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
• boss around — order about
• henpeck — to browbeat, bully, or intimidate (one's husband, boyfriend, etc.).
• call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
• kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
• lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
• rule the roost — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
• run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.