dominate

Though their communication might get interrupted when predators are near or human-generated noises dominate, they generally chatter at length at the water’s surface.

The former are dominated by a fear that they are never loved enough; the latter live in terror that they are about to lose their autonomy and independence to the demands of an all-engulfing partner.

When an English aristocrat rode through London in a zebra-drawn carriage, he embodied a dream decades in the making, borne from European efforts to dominate the African continent.