govern

B2 · Upper Intermediate

v. to have a strong influence on how something happens or how someone behaves.

v. to exercise a deciding or determining influence on an outcome, behavior, or process.

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“Common sense should govern your decisions when you are traveling alone.”

“The laws of physics govern the movement of the planets around the sun.”

C1 · Advanced Formal

v. to keep your feelings or behavior under control.

v. to restrain or control one's actions, emotions, or impulses.

“You must learn to govern your temper if you want to succeed in this job.”

“He found it increasingly difficult to govern his mounting frustration during the long and repetitive meeting.”

C2 · Proficiency Science Technical · Academic

v. in grammar, when a word makes you use a specific form or ending for another word.

v. to require that a following word take a specific grammatical case, mood, or preposition.

“In this sentence, the preposition 'with' is governed by the verb.”

“In many inflected languages, the choice of preposition directly governs the case of the following noun phrase.”