Word Finder - taught

definition

To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

example

‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.

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(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

example

Can you teach me to sew?  Can you teach sewing to me?

synonyms

• educate
• instruct

definition

To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

example

She used to teach at university.

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(ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.

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(ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

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I'll teach you to make fun of me!

All I know is what Mom and Dad taught me.

My father taught me.

You remember what I've taught you all these years?

She's been taught to avoid strangers.

I know the lessons you taught me will help him turn out well.

American English is taught in schools and American slang is practiced in bars everywhere.

Dad had taught her how to shoot when she was only ten years old.

Mr. Westlake never married and taught high school history for thirty years.

Childhood excursions had taught her that the country was rough, but was she up to ten miles of walking?

You're the one who taught me not to put all my eggs in one basket.

Sofi had taught him to use his cell phone and Dusty had taught him the computer.

If life had taught her anything it was that she could take care of herself.

Maybe this is what Hell should've taught you.

I taught you not to trust anyone, didn't I?

She began as she had been taught, focusing on her form.

But after he had learned to read, she taught him to look in books for that which he wished to know.

Who taught you to make those anyway?

Mine will be taught to mind.

Sometimes it was difficult to know which virtues they taught her were worthy and which were simply out-dated.

I want to hear the woman who lives by the motto of no apologies, no regrets, who told me once that her own soul searching taught her to live, doesn't want my help turning that three months into eternity.

He taught me how to kill someone, by the way, she added.

Dean considered a further prompt, but a dozen years of dealing with attorneys taught him it would be both unsuccessful and unwise.

He'd taught her to dance in the ring to outmaneuver the seven-foot vamp's hard strikes.

He taught me everything I know about old cars and why they are cool.

She leaned forward restlessly, seeking to recall what little he had taught her of strategy and why it looked very much like her kingdom was already doomed.

It was not until Mr. Keith taught me that I had a clear idea of mathematics.

I love you very dearly, because you have taught me so many lovely things about flowers, and birds, and people.

He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish.

Would she ever outgrow the things mama had taught her?

She peeled off the thick coat and draped it over one bench before seating herself facing the door, as her father had taught her.

What was the second lesson you taught Jonny?

Now who taught you to do that?

I learned it in school and I taught him some while we did chores.

Hell had taught him this, if nothing else.

They should have been taught better, she mused with a frown.

Their threat is taught to us diplomats as an extreme negotiating tactic.

The deep part of the pool was small, but years of practice had taught her where to land.

My dad taught me.

He'd taught her a few things during the two weeks he toyed with her, among them, how to combine her flexibility and speed into something more lethal.

You remember what Sirian taught you?

There were no lessons to be learned, except what the creature taught me.

Alex had taught Jonathan to shoot the first year after they had adopted him, but today he still got the same precautionary lecture that her father had given her.

So he gave one portion to the king's officer who had taught him to ride.

You have taught me a lesson.

In the school where Laura Bridgman was taught I was in my own country.

I explained to her that some deaf children were taught to speak, but that they could see their teachers' mouths, and that that was a very great assistance to them.

Beautiful flower, you have taught me to see a little way into the hidden heart of things.

That lawsuit taught me much.

Well, go on," he continued, returning to his hobby; "tell me how the Germans have taught you to fight Bonaparte by this new science you call 'strategy.'"

Dean tried to remember all the methods he'd been taught to stem panic and act rationally.