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Verb (1)

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (stative, transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
   • And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   r.

2. (intransitive, slang, stative) To excel.
   • This game rules!

   Synonyms:

   rock, bang, devour, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, excel, go hard, kick, kick ass, shine

   Antonyms:

   stink, suck

3. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
   • The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10

   Synonyms:

   hold

4. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
   • That's a ruled case with the school-men.1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Sheldonian] Theater, →OCLC
5. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).

Verb (2)

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To revel.

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