governs
Meaning of governs
verb
- To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
The old king governed the land wisely.
- To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
Chance governs the outcome of many card games.
- To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
a valve that governs fuel intake
- To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- To have or exercise a determining influence.
- (grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
Information about governs
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of governs is: govern.
- Languages in which governs is used:
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Hyphenation of governs
gov-erns
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- governs is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with governs
erns, Berns, concerns, decerns, discerns, lucerns, nonconcerns, overconcerns, secerns, unconcerns, antimoderns, derns, moderns, underns, ferns, salferns, Southerns, citherns, herns, lutherns, northerns, southerns, zitherns, Kerns, kerns, nebenkerns, Hohenzollerns, lamperns, perns, caserns, Westerns, bitterns, cisterns, citterns, externs, flitterns, gitterns, interns, lanterns, lecterns, letterns, morgensterns, pasterns, patterns, posterns, quarterns, repatterns, salterns, slatterns, sterns
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