1. predominate - Adjective
2. predominate - Verb
3. predominate - Adjective Satellite
To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart.
To rule over; to overpower.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Samuel Johnson
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. Fredrik Bajer
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. William John Wills
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate. Barbara Tuchman
Women predominate in the lower strata of employment. Ela Bhatt
The most serious criticism of EMU is that by abandoning exchange rate adjustments it transfers to the labor market the task of adjusting for competitiveness and relative prices... losses in output and employment (and pressure on the European central bank to inflate) will predominate. Rudiger Dornbusch