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  • verbinform, teach
  • verborder, command

synonyms for instruct

  • advise
  • brief
  • discipline
  • disclose
  • educate
  • guide
  • notify
  • tell
  • train
  • tutor
  • acquaint
  • apprise
  • brainwash
  • coach
  • counsel
  • drill
  • engineer
  • enlighten
  • ground
  • lead
  • lecture
  • level
  • pilot
  • reveal
  • school
  • steer
  • update
  • break in
  • break it to
  • clue in
  • drum into
  • give lessons
  • keep posted
  • wise up
See also synonyms for: instructed / instructible / misinstruct
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antonyms for instruct

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  • conceal
  • hide
  • learn
  • neglect
  • deceive
  • mislead
  • ask
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Then you are instructed to lie on a hard bed—it looks like a sun bed.
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A spokesman for Police Chief Dave Nisleit said he’s instructed officers, in the meantime, to stop writing seditious language tickets.
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San Diego Police Chief Dave Nisleit has instructed officers to stop enforcing a century-old law that forbids “seditious language” as elected officials begin the process of repealing it.
SDPD SAYS IT WILL STOP ENFORCING SEDITIOUS LANGUAGE LAWKATE NUCCIAUGUST 17, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Then the nurses track down and notify the person’s contacts who’ve potentially been exposed to the virus and instruct them how to quarantine.
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Public agencies across California are now required to rewrite policies and instruct their officers that it is only reasonable to take a life in defense against an imminent physical threat.
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It’s used to instruct crawlers on how to crawl and index your page.
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Did you personally instruct the New Orleans office to conduct the search of their records or cause such instructions to be given?
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If Chloe is not well informed, indiscreet and talkative Lycinion must take it upon herself to instruct Daphnis.
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Did you, yourself, personally authorize or instruct that the search be conducted which produced these telegrams?
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Out of love for the people, Heaven appoints rulers to protect and instruct them.
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