Synonyms of the word

predominate

• v. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
• v. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
• v. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
• adj. Predominant.

dominant

• n. (music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G…
• n. (music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
• n. (genetics) A gene that is dominant.
• n. A species or organism that is dominant.
• n. (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
• adj. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.
• adj. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
• adj. (medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.

dominate

• v. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
• v. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone.
• v. To enjoy a commanding position in some field.
• v. To overlook from a height.

hulk

• n. a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other…
• n. (archaic) any large ship that is difficult to maneuver.
• n. A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
• n. (bodybuilding): An excessively muscled person.
• v. To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

loom

• n. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
• n. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for…
• n. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.
• n. (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviformes).
• v. to impend; to threaten or hang over.
• v. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

overriding

• v. present participle of override.
• n. The act or process by which something is overridden.

paramount

• adj. Supreme; highest; chief.
• adj. Of the highest importance.

predominant

• adj. common or widespread; prevalent.
• adj. significant or important; dominant.
• n. (music) A subdominant.

preponderant

• adj. Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing.

preponderating

• v. present participle of preponderate.

prevail

• v. (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage…
• v. (intransitive) To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
• v. (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.

rear

• v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
• v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
• v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• v. (transitive) To move; stir.
• v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
• adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
• adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
• n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
• v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

reign

• n. The exercise of sovereign power.
• n. The period during which a monarch rules.
• n. The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

tower

• n. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite,…
• n. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires,…
• n. A water tower.
• n. A control tower.
• n. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
• n. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
• n. (informal) An interlocking tower.
• n. (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.
• n. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress.
• n. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
• n. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen.
• v. (intransitive) To be very tall.
• v. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
• n. One who tows.