Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)regulate, regularize, regularise, order, governbring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations“We cannot regulate the way people dress”,
“This town likes to regulate” (v)governdirect or strongly influence the behavior of“His belief in God governs his conduct” (v)govern, ruleexercise authority over; as of nations“Who is governing the country now?” (v)governrequire to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood“most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German”