1. Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
   "regulate the temperature"
   - modulate 
2. Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
   "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
   - regularize, regularise [Brit], order, govern 
3. Shape or influence; give direction to
   - determine, shape, mold [N. Amer], influence, mould [Brit, Cdn] 
4. Check the emission of (sound)
   - baffle

Derived forms: regulated, regulates, regulating

See also: regulating, regulation, regulator, regulatory

Type of: adjust, bound, cause, confine, correct, decide, determine, do, limit, make, make up one's mind, restrain, restrict, set, throttle, trammel

Antonym: deregulate

Encyclopedia: Regulate

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