Converse of object

• topple: To conquer al-Qaeda, to find WMD, to topple an evil tyrant?

• let: Either you are prepared to depose the tyrant or you are prepared to let the tyrant walk all over the world.

• remove: In this episode Cleomenes attacks Naxos and removes the tyrant, which shows he is prepared to attack overseas.

• become: These men, in their turn, became tyrants.

• see: You see a dangerous tyrant, I see an imperialistic war just like Vietnam.

• make: How can he make these tyrants his own instruments?

Converse of subject

• murder: Archbishop of Lyons, murdered by the tyrant Ebroin.

Adjective modifier

• bloodthirsty: So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world.

• murderous: The answer may well put the murderous tyrant in second place.

• cruel: And he could not face watching the cruel tyrant of time breaking her slowly into a bent and withered old woman.

• ruthless: Not only are there, and have there been, ruthless tyrants that kill and murder, like King Herod in Jesus ' day.

• petty: If you ran a news system you could be a petty tyrant.

• brutal: In fact they would still be living under a brutal tyrant.

Modifies a noun

• ruler: Before the people shall be free three tyrant rulers shall she see.

• king: When T.rex ruled the world - Tyrannosaurus rex is the Latin word for tyrant king.

• lizard: The king of the tyrant lizards, Tyrannosaurus Rex, is shown battling with a Stegosaurus.

• reign: I say, how long oh Lord shall tyrants reign?

Noun used with modifier

• world: Perhaps rednecks and third world tyrants can teach us how to build child prisons that work.

Preposition: in

• history: Mugabe has now done enough to ensure that he to, like all tyrants in history is about to go.

Preposition: of

• century: It was Stalin, the most odious tyrant of the century.