How to Spell control
control
control - verb
- To exercise restraining or directing influence over : regulate
- To have power over : rule
- To reduce the incidence or severity of especially to innocuous levels
- To incorporate suitable controls in
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"control one's anger"
control - thesaurus
Antonyms: impotence, impotency, powerlessness, nonpossession
Etymology
Middle English countrollen, from Anglo-French contrerouler, from contreroule copy of an account, audit, from Medieval Latin contrarotulus, from Latin contra- + Medieval Latin rotulus roll
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