dominate vs suppress

dominate

verb
  • To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone 

  • To enjoy a commanding position in some field 

  • To overlook from a height. 

  • To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node. 

  • To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power 

adj
  • Dominant. 

noun
  • The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period. 

suppress

verb
  • To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue. 

  • To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained. 

  • To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression. 

  • To prevent publication. 

  • To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others. 

  • To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind. 

  • To stop a flow or stream. 

  • To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal. 

How often have the words dominate and suppress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )