teach
1. impart skills or knowledge to (Freq. 86)
- I taught them French
- He instructed me in building a boat
• Syn:
learn, instruct
• Derivationally related forms:
instructive (for: instruct), instruction (for: instruct), instructor (for: instruct), teachable, teacher, teaching
• Hypernyms:
inform
• Hyponyms:
train, develop, prepare, educate, indoctrinate,
drill, catechize, catechise, reinforce, reward, spoonfeed,
induct, mentor, tutor, unteach, ground, lecture,
talk, coach, enlighten, edify, condition
• Cause:
learn, larn, acquire
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- The parents teach a French poem to the children
- The parents teach the children a French poem
2. accustom gradually to some action or attitude (Freq. 2)
- The child is taught to obey her parents
• Derivationally related forms:
teachable, teacher
• Hypernyms:
habituate, accustom
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
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