1 Venice

2 Venezia

1 might

2 formidable

1 to threaten

2 to menace

1 to pull

2 to play (a bowed instrument)

3 to drag

4 to draw

5 to chat

1 to hold hands

2 to shake hands

1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people

1 to exercise power arbitrarily (idiom)

1 to inspire awe throughout the empire (idiom)

1 to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)

1 lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom)

2 fig. to borrow sb's prestige

3 to take the name of a great cause as a shield