teach

1. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.Examples: "Can you teach me to sew?  Can you teach sewing to me?"Synonyms: educate, instructditransitive

2. (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.Examples: "She used to teach at university."Antonyms: learnintransitivestative

3. (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).Examples: "The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold."; "Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them."ditransitive

4. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.Examples: "I'll teach you to make fun of me!"ditransitive

5. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.Examples: "‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven."; "c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye."; "c1460, Cursor Mundiː Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way."obsoletetransitive