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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to direct or give orders to in an authoritative way;

e.g. I am the king, and I command you to stop right now!

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Similar Words

Adjure

Aloofness

Arm

Ask

Authority

Base

Behest

Bid

Bludge

Boss

Cadge

Call

Capitulary

Captain

Charge

Claim

Clutch

Commandment

Control

Counterorder

Decree

Demand

Dictate

Direct

Direction

Directive

Directory

Do

Dominate

Dominion

Edict

Enjoin

Enjoy

Exact

Fluency

Gerrymander

Govern

Grip

Guideline

Have

Head

Headquarters

Hold

Imperative

Injunction

Instruct

Instruction

Invoice

Iq

Jockey

Lead

Legislation

Lookout

Lordship

Mandate

Mastery

Micromanage

Ordain

Order

Outlook

Overlook

Own

Ownership

Panorama

Perspective

Possess

Power

Precept

Preside

Procurement

Proficiency

Pronounce

Proprietorship

Prospect

Quest

Regiment

Reign

Rein

Retain

Retention

Rule

Scepter

Seat

Self-censorship

Self-poise

Spearhead

Stipulate

Sway

Tell

Tyrannize

Undercharge

View

Virtuosity

Vista

Word

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Opposite Words

Abandon

Abate

Abolish

Abrogate

Albatross

Annul

Appeal

Avoid

Ban

Bar

Cancel

Cede

Countermand

Debit

Disclaim

Disinhibition

Disown

Dissolve

Downside

Dump

Enjoin

Entreaty

Follow

Forbid

Handicap

Ignorance

Illiteracy

Impotence

Incommodity

Incompetence

Interdict

Invalidate

Keep

Lack

Millstone

Mind

Need

Negate

Null

Nullify

Obey

Observe

Outlaw

Override

Petition

Plea

Prohibit

Proposal

Proscribe

Quash

Recommendation

Relinquish

Renounce

Repeal

Require

Rescind

Self-abandonment

Serve

Set-aside

Stricken

Strike

Suggestion

Surrender

Vacate

Void

Want

Weakness

Yield

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Related Words

Acquaintance

Act

Address

Administer

Administration

Advantage

Advise

Ascendance

Ascendancy

Ask

Assess

Assign

Authority

Authorization

Authorize

Badger

Be

Bear

Beg

Beseech

Better

Bill

Boast

Boss

Bring

Bulge

Bylaw

Call

Capability

Capital

Captain

Carry

Center

Challenge

Chops

Claim

Clout

Coerce

Commission

Communication

Compel

Conduct

Conjure

Conquer

Constitution

Constrain

Constraint

Continence

Contrive

Control

Cost

Counsel

Countermand

Counterorder

Credit

Define

Demand

Detachment

Detail

Dictate

Direct

Direction

Directive

Discipline

Discount

Discretion

Dispatch

Dominance

Dominate

Domination

Domineer

Dominion

Drop

Dun

Edge

Effect

Eminence

Enactment

Engineer

Enjoyment

Entreat

Experience

Expertise

Face

Facility

Familiarity

Fetch

Field

Finagle

Finesse

Fluency

Force

Frame

Freedom

Front

Good

Govern

Governance

Government

Grasp

Hack

Hail

Hand

Handle

Hang

Harass

Head

Heft

Hegemony

Hold

Home

Hound

Impact

Imperium

Impetrate

Implore

Importance

Importune

Impose

In

Influence

Inhibition

Intimacy

Invoice

Juice

Jump

Jurisdiction

Keep

Keeping

Ken

Know-how

Landscape

Latitude

Law

Lead

Leverage

License

Lie

Literacy

Machinate

Manage

Management

Mandate

Maneuver

Manipulate

Manipulative

Master

Mastermind

Memo

Memorandum

Message

Micromanage

Moment

Monopolize

Moxie

Necessitate

Need

Negotiate

Notice

Oblige

Onto

Operate

Oppress

Ordinance

Overcharge

Overlook

Oversee

Petition

Play

Possession

Practice

Pray

Precept

Predominance

Preeminence

Prerogative

Prescribe

Prescript

Prescription

Price

Privilege

Proficiency

Pull

Qualification

Quarterback

Regime

Regimen

Regulate

Regulation

Reign

Repercussion

Repression

Request

Require

Requirement

Requisition

Reserve

Restraint

Retain

Right

Rule

Run

Savvy

Scene

Scenery

Seat

Self-command

Self-control

Self-discipline

Self-government

Self-mastery

Self-possession

Self-restraint

Sight

Sit

Skill

Sovereignty

Specify

Sport

Stand

Statute

Stead

Stuff

Subdue

Subjugate

Summon

Superintend

Supervise

Supplicate

Suppression

Supremacy

Sway

Swing

Take

Treat

Tyrannize

Undercharge

Upper

Value

Vantage

Virtuosity

Voice

Wangle

Want

Warn

Warrant

Weight

Will

Willpower

Withhold

Work

Would

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