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teaches

verb

Meaning

  1. To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
  2. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
  3. To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
  4. (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
  5. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
  6. (usually as a term of address) teacher
  7. One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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