1.  educate(v = verb.social) - give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better"
is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
Derived forms noun educatee₁, noun education₄, noun education₁, noun education₆, adjective educative₁, noun educator₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody

2.  educate(v = verb.cognition) develop, prepare, train - create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
is one way to instruct, learn, teach
Derived forms noun education₄, noun education₁, noun education₃, noun education₂, adjective educative₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody

3.  educate(v = verb.social) civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
is one way to down, fine-tune, polish, refine
Derived form noun education₅
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

   To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

educate, v.tr. (also absol.)
1 give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (a pupil, esp. a child), esp. as a formal and prolonged process.
2 provide education for.
3 (often foll. by in, or to + infin.) train or instruct for a particular purpose.
4 advise; give information to.

Derivative:
educable adj. educability n. educatable adj. educative adj. educator n.

Etymology:
L educare educat-, rel. to educere EDUCE

VB  teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, teach the young idea how to shoot, improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted.