instruct
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Is instruct a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of instruct?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To teach by giving instructions.Examples: "Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture."; "Supply me with the habit and instruct me How I may formally in person bear me Like a true friar."; "What a dishonour’s this, to me, to have so Dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty."Synonyms: educate, guidetransitive
2. (transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.Examples: "Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise""; "The doctor instructed me to keep my arm immobilised and begin physiotherapy."; "What, shall a child instruct you what to do?"Synonyms: command, direct, ordertransitive
3. (transitive) To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a particular issue; thereby formally appointing them as one's own legal representative in relation to it.Examples: "If you're not careful, I'm going to instruct a solicitor over this."transitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Instruction.obsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Arranged; furnished; provided.Examples: "For he had neither ship, instruct with oares, Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores."not-comparableobsolete
2. (obsolete) Instructed; taught; enlightened.Examples: "Who ever by consulting at thy shrine Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct To flye or follow what concern’d him most, And run not sooner to his fatal snare?"not-comparableobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary