Verb
To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.
To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy reason, it's true, controls my feelings, But whatever its authority, It doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. Pierre Corneille
That monarch does not have the right to commit wrongdoing, not even one ounce of it. He only has the right to lead and to the basic necessities of life, or a little more, not to do whatever he pleases or to tyrannize the people. Subh-i-Azal
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens. John Maynard Keynes
her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her Source: Internet