What is the meaning of dominating?

verb

• Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance.
  • usage: "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood"
  • synonyms: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail
• Be in control.
  • usage: "Her husband completely dominates her"
  • synonyms: dominate
• Have dominance or the power to defeat over.
  • usage: "Her pain completely mastered her"; "The methods can master the problems"
  • synonyms: dominate, master
• Be greater in significance than.
  • usage: "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness"
  • synonyms: overshadow, dominate, eclipse
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop

adjective

• Most powerful or important or influential.
  • usage: "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
  • synonyms: ascendant, ascendent
• Used of a height or viewpoint.
  • usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
  • synonyms: commanding, overlooking
• Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
  • usage: "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
  • synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory