Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rule
Participle: ruled
Gerund: ruling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rule |
| you | rule |
| he;she;it | rules |
| we | rule |
| you | rule |
| they | rule |
Perfect
| I | have ruled |
| you | have ruled |
| he;she;it | has ruled |
| we | have ruled |
| you | have ruled |
| they | have ruled |
Past
| I | ruled |
| you | ruled |
| he;she;it | ruled |
| we | ruled |
| you | ruled |
| they | ruled |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruled |
| you | had ruled |
| he;she;it | had ruled |
| we | had ruled |
| you | had ruled |
| they | had ruled |
Future
| I | will rule |
| you | will rule |
| he;she;it | will rule |
| we | will rule |
| you | will rule |
| they | will rule |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ruled |
| you | will have ruled |
| he;she;it | will have ruled |
| we | will have ruled |
| you | will have ruled |
| they | will have ruled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rule |
| you | rule |
| he;she;it | rule |
| we | rule |
| you | rule |
| they | rule |
Perfect
| I | have ruled |
| you | have ruled |
| he;she;it | have ruled |
| we | have ruled |
| you | have ruled |
| they | have ruled |
Imperfect
| I | ruled |
| you | ruled |
| he;she;it | ruled |
| we | ruled |
| you | ruled |
| they | ruled |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruled |
| you | had ruled |
| he;she;it | had ruled |
| we | had ruled |
| you | had ruled |
| they | had ruled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rule |
| you | would rule |
| he;she;it | would rule |
| we | would rule |
| you | would rule |
| they | would rule |
Perfect
| I | would have ruled |
| you | would have ruled |
| he;she;it | would have ruled |
| we | would have ruled |
| you | would have ruled |
| they | would have ruled |
Imperative
| you | rule |
| we | Let's rule |
| you | rule |
Verbs conjugated like 'rule'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rule'
gule,
mule,
pule,
reule,
rile,
roule,
rue,
ruler,
ruse,
able,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- govern
- administer, order, command, direct, control, decree, lead, manage
- decide
- decree, deem, judge, order, establish, settle, demand
Antonyms
- to be poor at
- rock, suck
- to submit to the power of another
- control, dominate, persevere, stand firm, stay, surrender
- to act as a servant for
- govern, order, serve
- govern
- obey, acquiesce, comply, cede
- decide
- hesitate, vacillate, waver, misjudge
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1225, "principal or maxim governing conduct," from O.Fr.
riule, from V.L.
*regula, from L.
regula "straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern," related to
regere "to rule, straighten, guide" (see right). Replaced O.E.
wealdan. Meaning "regulation governing play of a game, etc." is from 1697. Phrase
rule of thumb first attested 1692.
Rule of law "supremacy of impartial and well-defined laws to any individual's power" is from 1883. Meaning "Strip used for making straight lines" is recorded from 1340. Typography sense is attested from 1683.
2. From Middle English reulen, rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regulāre (“to regulate, rule”), from regula (“a rule”); see regular and regulate. See: Middle English '
reulen'.
Verbs referencing "rule"
Scots Gaelic
riaghail, Finnish with old forms
rulettaa.
Sample Sentences
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[...] are surrounded by all reasonable means of comfort and happiness that their condition will admit of; are appealed to, as members of the great human family, however afflicted, indigent, or fallen; are ruled by the strong Heart, and not by the strong (though immeasurably weaker ) Hand. I have described them at some length; firstly, because their worth demanded it; and secondly, because I mean to take [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] at the very first gobble, and a stout house-dog, of moderate capacity, would bring her into subjection merely by a show of his teeth. Her husband and children were her entire world, and in these she ruled more by entreaty and persuasion than by command or argument. There was only one thing that was capable of arousing her, and that provocation came in on the side of her unusually gentle and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] conceded point with her old mistress, Marie's mother; and “ Miss Marie, ” as Dinah always called her young mistress, even after her marriage, found it easier to submit than contend; and so Dinah had ruled supreme. This was the easier, in that she was perfect mistress of that diplomatic art which unites the utmost subservience of manner with the utmost inflexibility as to measure.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] every once in a while interrupting her meditations to give a poke, or a rap on the head, to some of the young operators, with the pudding-stick that lay by her side. In fact, Dinah ruled over the woolly heads of the younger members with a rod of iron, and seemed to consider them born for no earthly purpose but to “ save her steps, ” as she phrased it. It was the spirit of the system [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] any tale of cruelty and horror, however aggravated in degree, that it is improbable, when they can turn to the public prints, and, running, read such signs as these, laid before them by the men who rule the slaves: in their own acts and under their own hands ?
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] came first from New England; and he was just such another man as your father,—a regular old Roman,—upright, energetic, noble-minded, with an iron will. Your father settled down in New England, to rule over rocks and stones, and to force an existence out of Nature; and mine settled in Louisiana, to rule over men and women, and force existence out of them. My mother, ” said St. Clare, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] energetic, noble-minded, with an iron will. Your father settled down in New England, to rule over rocks and stones, and to force an existence out of Nature; and mine settled in Louisiana, to rule over men and women, and force existence out of them. My mother, ” said St. Clare, getting up and walking to a picture at the end of the room, and gazing upward with a face fervent with veneration, “ [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] that Squire Sinclair does not feel above them. The fact is, though he has fallen on democratic times, and embraced a democratic theory, he is to the heart an aristocrat, as much as my father, who ruled over five or six hundred slaves. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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♪ Vizag to Hong Kong I own the map lifelong ♪ ♪ I am the don who rules the sea I am the lord, you are my lackey ♪
(Magudam)
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♪ I am the don who rules the sea I am the lord, you are my lackey ♪
(Magudam)