verb

• (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
  "With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate."
• (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
  "All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness."
• (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

adj

• (sometimes proscribed) Predominant.
  "Eradication of disorder may indirectly reduce crime by stabilizing neighborhoods, but the direct link as formulated by proponents was not the predominate one in our study."