Verb

(en verb)

To modify.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}

To improve or rectify.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty

, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

To settle an insurance claim.

To change to fit circumstances.

Verb

(en verb)

To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

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 usually governs the outcome of the game.

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.

To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.