Synonyms for regulate
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Govern
govern, regularize UK US, regularise UK, order, organize, organise UK, manage, conduct, systematize UK US, systematise UK, rule, direct, ordain, guide, discipline, supervise, steer, preside
Definitions
- v. 1
To dictate policy.
- v. 2
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
Related words
- Word family
- regulative regular regulation regulator
Forms
- Past participle
- regulated
e.g. regulated → governed, regularized, ordered, organized…
Example sentences
- manage Tom took a class to learn how to manage his anger.
- conduct Everyone of us is responsible for his own conduct.
- organize They are trying to organize a new political party.
- govern These three parties govern together in a coalition.
- determine The doctors couldn't determine the cause of death.
- adjust Tom tried to adjust the temperature of the shower.
By length
- 3 letters
- set1
- 4 letters
- time1, rule1, mold1
- 5 letters
- order2, guide1, shape1, adapt2, steer1, mould1
- 6 letters
- direct2, manage2, settle2, adjust2, govern2, baffle2, ordain2
- 7 letters
- control2, conduct2, arrange2, dispose2, rectify3, preside2
- 8 letters
- moderate3, organize3, organise, modulate3
- 9 letters
- influence3, determine3, supervise3, methodize, methodise
- 10 letters
- discipline3, proportion3, regularize, regularise
- 11 letters
- systematize, systematise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (order2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- régler
- Italiano
- saldare
- Español
- regularizar
- Deutsch
- austragen