verb
To instruct or train.
Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.
adj
educated
ADJ.
global, whole, young
VERB + EDUCATE
don't, helping, need, order, took, want, went, work
EDUCATE + NOUN
children, daughter, money, people, person, sons, tongue, village
PREP.
about, in, out, through
verb — create by training and teaching
verb — teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
In the last analysis, methods don't educate children; people do.
You must educate your tongue to distinguish good coffee from bad.
There were few colleges to educate women.
You will never know what she went through to educate her children.
She took pains to educate her children.
i Register
In some senses, educate is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.