• v.
    ⦿maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
    lexical concept
  • She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up
  • She manipulates her boss
  • The teacher knew how to keep the class in line
  • she keeps in line

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:control
  2. enl:keep in line
  3. enl:manipulate
wn:interlingual indexili:i30748

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • controlkeep in linemanipulate
  • keep in line