Definition of "predominate"

predominate

/pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present predominates, present participle predominating, simple past and past participle predominated
1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
  Quotations
  All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 296
  Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.
  1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 215
3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
adjective
1. Predominant.