despotize

== English == === Etymology === From despot +‎ -ize. === Verb === despotize (third-person singular simple present despotizes, present participle despotizing, simple past and past participle despotized) To behave like a despot; to act despotically; to tyrannize. === References === “despotize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.