predominate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they predominate | |
| he / she / it predominates | |
| past simple predominated | |
| past participle predominated | |
| -ing form predominating |
- [intransitive]
to be greater in amount or number than something/somebody else in a place, group, etc. （数量上）占优势；居多 - [intransitive] predominate (over somebody/something)
to have the most influence or importance 占主导地位；有最大影响（或重要性）
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin predominat- ‘predominated’, from the verb predominari (see pre-, dominate).