0 past simple and past participle of predominate
1 to be the largest in number or the most important:
In industrial areas, the dark-coloured variety of the moth now predominates.
They mostly consisted of one-noun utterances, which greatly predominated over multi-noun utterances in all three age groups.
The ages of the inmates varied, but the old and the sick predominated.
However, in tobacco-growing areas the tobacco-feeding form predominated in spring populations on peach, and was sometimes found on other secondary hosts.
Wives clearly predominated as care providers, and in close to two-thirds of the care occasions provided all the care or more than their husbands.
In voluntary manumissions women clearly predominated, though not as excessively as some have assumed.
In the period under investigation, strongly partisan voting behavior predominated at election time.
It is important to appreciate that these articles were published when behaviorist views of language acquisition predominated.
In those patients who required intervention for recurrence of mood symptoms, interventions for depressive symptoms predominated over manic symptoms in nearly a 3 : 1 ratio.
