TYRANNIZE Copy link • TYRANNIZETo govern as a tyrant, tyrannidem exercere: tyrannum agere: dominari (regnare, in the Roman sense). To act cruelly and imperiously, crudeliter facere. To tyrannize over anybody, superbe crudeliterque aliquem tractare: tyrannice statuere in aliquem: crudelem, saevum esse in aliquem (after Cic.); tyrannicum imperium exercere in aliquem (Ruhnken); tyrannico imperio premere aliquem (Muret.).