govern
/ˈɡʌv.ɚn/ verb B1- To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. · The old king governed the land wisely.
- To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. · Govern yourselves like civilized people.· a student who could not govern his impulses
- To exercise a deciding or determining influence on. · Chance governs the outcome of many card games.
- To have or exercise a determining influence.
- To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate. · a valve that governs fuel intake
- To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
He/she/it governs · Past governed · Past participle governed · -ing form governing
Verb forms
- Base form
- govern
- He/she/it
- governs
- Past
- governed
- Past participle
- governed
- -ing form
- governing
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Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend’s connections than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr.
If I have wounded your sister’s feelings, it was unknowingly done; and though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learnt to condemn them.
“My opinion is, that all these old podestàs, these ancient condottieri,—for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and governed provinces,—my opinion, I say, is, that they have buried their millions in corners, the secret of which they have transmitted only to their eldest sons, who have done the same from generation to generation; and the proof of this is seen in their yellow and dry appearance, like the florins of the republic, which, from being constantly gazed upon, have become reflected in them.”
Arthur discovered that the mathematical principles governing acoustic frequencies shared a remarkable kinship with the harmonious balance required in bridge construction.
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