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Verb educates, educating, educated
educate - give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better"
		ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better make amendments to; "amend the document"
		socialise, socialize make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; "Health care should be socialized!"
		groom, prepare, train care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-groomed"
		co-educate, coeducate educate persons of both sexes together
		school swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
educate - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
		school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
		fine-tune, polish, down, refine adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine"
		sophisticate make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
educate - create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
		train, develop, prepare
		teach, instruct, learn accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is taught to obey her parents"
		retrain train again; "He is retraining to become an IT worker"
		drill train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
		house-train, housebreak train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house
		toilet-train train (a small child) to use the toilet

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educate (v. t.)
To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

educate
ed′ū-kāt, v.t. to bring up children: to train: to teach: to cultivate any power.—adj. Ed′ucable.—n. Educā′tion, the bringing up or training, as of a child: instruction: strengthening of the powers of body or mind.—adj. Educā′tional.—adv. Educā′tionally.—n. Educā′tionist, one skilled in methods of educating or teaching: one who promotes education.—adj. Ed′ucative, of or pertaining to education: calculated to teach.—n. Ed′ucator. [L. educāre, -ātum—educĕre—e, out, ducĕre, to lead.]