DOMINATE

[verb] often [disapproving] - to have control over (a place or a person), or be the most important person or thingHe refuses to let others speak and dominates every meeting. [T]The tree, which had grown too large, dominated the little garden (= was much bigger than everything else there). [T]The group dominated the pop charts during the 1970s. [T]They work as a group - no one person is allowed to dominate. [I]