rule
/ɹul/ verb B2- To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
- To excel. · This game rules!
- To decide judicially.
- To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
- To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
Plural rule · He/she/it rules · Past ruled · Past participle ruled · -ing form ruling
Verb forms
- Base form
- rule
- He/she/it
- rules
- Past
- ruled
- Past participle
- ruled
- -ing form
- ruling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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When he was here he built for us this beautiful Emerald City, and now he is gone he has left the Wise Scarecrow to rule over us.”
“They are the people who live in this land of the East where the Wicked Witch ruled.”
I am not as powerful as the Wicked Witch was who ruled here, or I should have set the people free myself.”
And that country, where the Winkies live, is ruled by the Wicked Witch of the West, who would make you her slave if you passed her way.”
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