Verb

• S: (v) regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations) "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
• S: (v) govern (direct or strongly influence the behavior of) "His belief in God governs his conduct"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) control, command (exercise authoritative control or power over) "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) preoccupy (engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively) "His work preoccupies him"; "The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else"
• S: (v) haunt, obsess, ghost (haunt like a ghost; pursue) "Fear of illness haunts her"
• S: (v) prepossess (cause to be preoccupied) "The idea of his failure prepossesses him"
• S: (v) steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
• S: (v) dock (maneuver into a dock) "dock the ships"
• S: (v) dry-dock, drydock (maneuver (a ship) into a drydock)
• S: (v) sheer (cause to sheer) "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
• S: (v) pull over (steer a vehicle to the side of the road) "The car pulled over when the ambulance approached at high speed"
• S: (v) helm (be at or take the helm of) "helm the ship"
• S: (v) crab (direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind)
• S: (v) navigate (direct carefully and safely) "He navigated his way to the altar"
• S: (v) stand out (steer away from shore, of ships)
• S: (v) starboard (turn to the right, of helms or rudders)
• S: (v) conn (conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane)
• S: (v) navigate, pilot (act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance) "Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?"; "Who was navigating the ship during the accident?"
• S: (v) astrogate (guide in interplanetary travel)
• S: (v) channel (direct the flow of) "channel information towards a broad audience"
• S: (v) corner, tree (force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape)
• S: (v) park (maneuver a vehicle into a parking space) "Park the car in front of the library"; "Can you park right here?"
• S: (v) angle-park (park at an angle)
• S: (v) parallel-park (park directly behind another vehicle)
• S: (v) double-park (park a vehicle alongside another)
• S: (v) steer (direct (oneself) somewhere) "Steer clear of him"
• S: (v) hold one's own (maintain one's position and be in control of a situation)
• S: (v) manage, deal, care, handle (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of) "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
• S: (v) administer, administrate (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of) "administer a program"; "she administers the funds"
• S: (v) pontificate (administer a pontifical office)
• S: (v) oversee, supervise, superintend, manage (watch and direct) "Who is overseeing this project?"
• S: (v) build (order, supervise, or finance the construction of) "The government is building new schools in this state"
• S: (v) organize, organise (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)
• S: (v) arrange, set up, put, order (arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events) "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
• S: (v) synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise (arrange or represent events so that they co-occur) "synchronize biblical events"
• S: (v) phrase (divide, combine, or mark into phrases) "phrase a musical passage"
• S: (v) rationalize, rationalise (structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results) "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"
• S: (v) territorialize, territorialise (organize as a territory)
• S: (v) reorganize, reorganise, shake up (organize anew) "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under"
• S: (v) retool, revise (revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving) "We must retool the town's economy"
• S: (v) collectivize, collectivise (bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises)
• S: (v) work (cause to operate or function) "This pilot works the controls"; "Can you work an electric drill?"
• S: (v) come to grips, get to grips (deal with (a problem or a subject)) "I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents"
• S: (v) dispose of (deal with or settle) "He disposed of these cases quickly"
• S: (v) take care, mind (be in charge of or deal with) "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements"
• S: (v) tend (manage or run) "tend a store"
• S: (v) stoke (stir up or tend; of a fire)
• S: (v) coordinate (bring into common action, movement, or condition) "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues"; "coordinate our efforts"
• S: (v) juggle (deal with simultaneously) "She had to juggle her job and her children"
• S: (v) process (deal with in a routine way) "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
• S: (v) mismanage, mishandle, misconduct (manage badly or incompetently) "The funds were mismanaged"
• S: (v) direct (be in charge of)
• S: (v) hold, throw, have, make, give (organize or be responsible for) "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"
• S: (v) guide, steer (be a guiding or motivating force or drive) "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"
• S: (v) head, lead (be in charge of) "Who is heading this project?"
• S: (v) chair, chairman (act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university) "She chaired the department for many years"
• S: (v) captain (be the captain of a sports team)
• S: (v) spearhead (be the leader of) "She spearheaded the effort to find a cure for the disease"
• S: (v) take hold, take charge, take control (assume control)
• S: (v) move in on (seize control of)
• S: (v) operate, run (direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.) "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
• S: (v) financier (conduct financial operations)
• S: (v) work (operate in or through) "Work the phones"
• S: (v) block (run on a block system) "block trains"
• S: (v) warm up (run until the normal working temperature is reached) "We warmed up the car for a few minutes"
• S: (v) administer (direct the taking of) "administer an exam"; "administer an oath"
• S: (v) conduct, carry on, deal (direct the course of; manage or control) "You cannot conduct business like this"
• S: (v) racketeer (carry on illegal business activities involving crime)
• S: (v) touch (deal with; usually used with a form of negation) "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
• S: (v) internationalize, internationalise (put under international control) "internationalize trade of certain drugs"
• S: (v) hold (take and maintain control over, often by violent means) "The dissatisfied students held the President's office for almost a week"
• S: (v) hold sway (be master; reign or rule)
• S: (v) govern (direct or strongly influence the behavior of) "His belief in God governs his conduct"
• S: (v) regiment (subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization) "regiment one's children"
• S: (v) monopolize, monopolise (have and control fully and exclusively) "He monopolizes the laser printer"
• S: (v) harness, rein in, draw rein, rein (control and direct with or as if by reins) "rein a horse"
• S: (v) corner (gain control over) "corner the gold market"
• S: (v) preside (act as president) "preside over companies and corporations"
• S: (v) dominate, master (have dominance or the power to defeat over) "Her pain completely mastered her"; "The methods can master the problems"
• S: (v) command (be in command of) "The general commanded a huge army"
• S: (v) general (command as a general) "We are generaled by an incompetent!"
• S: (v) officer (direct or command as an officer)
• S: (v) subjugate, subject (make subservient; force to submit or subdue)
• S: (v) dragoon (subjugate by imposing troops)
• S: (v) enslave (make a slave of; bring into servitude)
• S: (v) charm, becharm (control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft)
• S: (v) hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx (cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something)
• S: (v) voodoo (bewitch by or as if by a voodoo)
• S: (v) spell (place under a spell)
• S: (v) govern, rule (exercise authority over; as of nations) "Who is governing the country now?"
• S: (v) throne (sit on the throne as a ruler)
• S: (v) misgovern (govern badly)
• S: (v) dictate (rule as a dictator)
• S: (v) tyrannize, tyrannise, grind down (rule a country as a tyrant)
• S: (v) reign (have sovereign power) "Henry VIII reigned for a long time"
• S: (v) call the shots, call the tune, wear the trousers (exercise authority or be in charge) "Who is calling the shots in this house?"
• derivationally related form
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• derivationally related form
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• S: (v) govern, rule (exercise authority over; as of nations) "Who is governing the country now?"
• S: (v) govern (require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood) "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German"