regularise

1. 1.

   bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

   “We cannot regulate the way people dress”

   “This town likes to regulate”

   Synonymsregulateregularizeordergovern

   Broaderdecide

   Narrowerstandardizezone
2. 2.

   make regular or more regular

   “regularize the heart beat with a pace maker”

   Synonymsregularize

   Broaderarrange

   Narrowereven

Other forms of regularise

past tense

regularised·

present participle

regularising·

third person

regularises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about regularise

What does regularise mean?

regularise means "bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regularise?

regularise has 4 syllables: re-gu-la-rise. The stress falls on "gu".

What is another word for regularise?

Close synonyms include regulate, regularize, order, govern, regularize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is regularise a common word?

regularise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.