teach
/tiːt͡ʃ/ verb A1- To pass on knowledge to. · Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?
- To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. · She used to teach at university.
- To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
- To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action. · I'll teach you to make fun of me!
Plural teach · He/she/it teaches · Past taught · Past participle taught · -ing form teaching
Verb forms
- Base form
- teach
- He/she/it
- teaches
- Past
- taught
- Past participle
- taught
- -ing form
- teaching
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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There’s never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he’s up and off to the lobster canneries or the States.
It might be made a text-book for detectives to teach them what to avoid.”
I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives, having any regard for their husbands, who would let any man’s spoken word stand between them and that husband’s dead body.
Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.
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