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teach

verb

1 she teaches children with special needs | I started teaching in 1961:

educate, instruct, school, tutor, give lessons to, coach, train, upskill, ground, enlighten, illuminate, verse, edify, prepare, din something into, indoctrinate, brainwash;

drill, discipline, put someone through their paces;

North American teach school.

2 I was teaching English in a boy's school:

give lessons in, lecture in, give instructions in, inform someone about, familiarize someone with, acquaint someone with, instil, inculcate, explicate, explain, expound.

3 teaching your teenager how to negotiate is implicit in the process of formulating a contract:

train, show, guide, instruct, demonstrate to, give someone an idea, make clear;

informal learn.

word links	teach
didactic, pedagogic, educational, educative relating to teaching