What regularization of singularity means?

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I have this function,

$$F(r) = \frac{1}{r^{6}-1}$$

What does regularization of the singularity mean? I think we can add a small imaginary part to remove the singularity like given below. $$F(r) = \frac{1}{r^{6}-1+i 0^{+}}$$

How this helps when evaluating following integral.

$$\int_{-1}^{1} \frac{1}{r^{6}-1+i 0^{+}}dr$$