instruct

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Verb[change]

Plain form
instruct

Third-person singular
instructs

Past tense
instructed

Past participle
instructed

Present participle
instructing

  1. (transitive) If you instruct someone, you tell or teach them what to do or how to do something.
    We were stopped on the road and instructed by the police to turn around and go back.

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