govern

1. Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage;
   Impose regulations (synset 202517217)
   "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
   is a type of: decide, determine, make up one's mind - reach, make, or come to a decision about something
   subtypes:

   • standardise, standardize - cause to conform to standard or norm
   • district, zone - regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
   same as: order, regularise, regularize, regulate
2. Direct or strongly influence the behavior of (synset 202447070)
   "His belief in God governs his conduct"
   is a type of: command, control - exercise authoritative control or power over
3. Exercise authority over;
   As of nations (synset 202592711)
   "Who is governing the country now?"
   is a type of: command, control - exercise authoritative control or power over
   subtypes:

   • throne - sit on the throne as a ruler
   • misgovern - govern badly
   • dictate - rule as a dictator
   • reign - have sovereign power
   same as: rule
4. Require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood (synset 202634728)
   "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German"
   is a type of: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take - require as useful, just, or proper

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