teached

Verb

teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)

1. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
   • Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?

   Synonyms:

   educate, instruct

2. (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
   • She used to teach at university.

   Antonyms:

   learn

3. (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
   • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
4. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
   • I'll teach you to make fun of me!
5. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
   • ‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.

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