In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TYRANNISE
tyrannize, tyrannise, domineer
(verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner; “her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her”
tyrannize, tyrannise, grind down
(verb) rule a country as a tyrant
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
tyrannise (third-person singular simple present tyrannises, present participle tyrannising, simple past and past participle tyrannised)
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of tyrannize.
Anagrams
• Tyrsenian, tyrannies
Source: Wiktionary
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