"rule the school" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rules the school",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruling the school",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruled the school",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruled the school",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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            "Sciences",
            "Culture"
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        {
          "ref": "1884, George Augustus Sala with Edmund Hodgson Yates, “Westminster School”, in Temple bar, volume 71, page 504",
          "text": "After Page, Dr. E. Goodenough ruled the school from 1819 to 1828. On his retirement he obtained the deanery of Wells ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To substantially control a school administratively, financially, or in terms of its curriculum."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "school",
          "school"
        ],
        [
          "curriculum",
          "curriculum"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, William Edward Heygate, Godfrey Davenant, page 123",
          "text": "But as Shelley was by far the cleverest of the three head boys who were there, he ruled the school.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(of one or a group of students) To socially dominate a school's student population, or a major part of it (such as the girls or the boys)."
      ],
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        [
          "dominate",
          "dominate"
        ],
        [
          "school",
          "school"
        ],
        [
          "student",
          "student"
        ],
        [
          "population",
          "population"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) (of one or a group of students) To socially dominate a school's student population, or a major part of it (such as the girls or the boys)."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "rule the school"
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    "English verbs",
    "en:Schools"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ruling the school",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruled the school",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ruled the school",
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  ],
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        }
      ],
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        "To substantially control a school administratively, financially, or in terms of its curriculum."
      ],
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          "curriculum",
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        }
      ],
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        "(of one or a group of students) To socially dominate a school's student population, or a major part of it (such as the girls or the boys)."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) (of one or a group of students) To socially dominate a school's student population, or a major part of it (such as the girls or the boys)."
      ],
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