Reeducates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Trains or instructs someone again to alter their behavior or skills through renewed teaching or practice
2. Provides additional education or training to enable someone to develop new habits or abilities
3. Teaches or coaches a person once more to modify their responses or improve their competence

Etymology: "Reeducates" is the third-person singular present form of "reeducate", so the real story belongs to the verb itself. It is built from the prefix "re-", meaning "again" or "back", attached to "educate". The base verb "educate" comes from Latin "educare", which meant to rear or bring up a child, and the Latin root behind it, "ducere", means "to lead". Education, in other words, began as a word about leading someone along, not about lessons or schooling. English took "re-" from Latin and used it freely, so "reeducate" is an ordinary compound: "educate" with "again" attached. The meaning follows the prefix directly. To reeducate someone is to teach them afresh, often because their earlier learning was wrong, outdated, or lost, as when a person recovering from injury must relearn skills or a population is taught new habits after a major change.

Synonyms: instructs, teaches, trains, reforms, enlightens

Antonyms: misleads, confuses, misinforms, neglects, abandon