regulate

Verb

Verb Forms: regulated, regulating, regulates

To control or maintain something according to rules or standards.
fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
- "regulate the temperature"
bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- "We cannot regulate the way people dress"
- "This town likes to regulate"
shape or influence; give direction to
check the emission of (sound)
To dictate policy.
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
To put or maintain in order.

Examples

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to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
to regulate one's eating habits
to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regulatus, perfect passive participle of regulō (“to direct, rule, regulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from regula (“rule”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail. Displaced native Old English metegian.

Synonyms

baffle, determine, govern, influence, modulate, mold, order, regularise, regularize, shape

Antonyms

deregulate

Scrabble Score: 9

regulate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
regulate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
regulate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

regulate: valid Words With Friends Word