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1. Give an education to
   "We must educate our youngsters better"
    
2. Create by training and teaching
   - train, develop, prepare
    
3. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
   - school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise [Brit]

Derived forms: educated, educates, educating

See also: educatee, Education, educative, educator

Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, down, fine-tune, improve, instruct, learn, meliorate, polish, refine, teach

Encyclopedia: Educate