reigned

Verb

reign (third-person singular simple present reigns, present participle reigning, simple past and past participle reigned)

1. (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
   • He reigned in an autocratic manner.
2. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To reign over (a country)
   • The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.2007, Anna Chilewska, Writing after the gaze: the rupture of the historical
3. To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
4. To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
   • Silence reigned.

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