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1. Impart skills or knowledge to
   "I taught them French"
   - learn, instruct
    
2. Accustom gradually to some action or attitude
   "The child is taught to obey her parents"

1. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
   - Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard

Derived forms: teaches, teaching, taught

See also: teachable, teacher, teaching

Type of: accustom, buccaneer, habituate, inform, pirate, sea robber, sea rover

Encyclopedia: Teach