regulate

regulate is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
2. transitive verb. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
3. transitive verb. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
4. verb. check the emission of (sound)

   Synonyms: baffle

5. verb. fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of

   "regulate the temperature"

   "modulate the pitch"

   Synonyms: modulate

6. verb. shape or influence; give direction to

   "experience often determines ability"

   "mold public opinion"

   Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, shape

7. verb. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

   "We cannot regulate the way people dress"

   "This town likes to regulate"

   Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in regulate:

legature

Common word forms

regulated, regulates, regulating

Words from these letters

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