relearn - learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it; "After the accident, he could not walk for months and had to relearn how to walk down stairs"

catch up - learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened; "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"

assimilate, ingest, absorb, take in - take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

hit the books, study - learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now"

get the goods - discover some bad or hidden information about; "She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail"

wise up - get wise to; "They wised up to it"

trip up, catch - detect a blunder or misstep; "The reporter tripped up the senator"

ascertain - learn or discover with certainty

discover, find - make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"

witness, see, find - perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"

understudy, alternate - be an understudy or alternate for a role

hit the books, study - learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now"

audit - attend academic courses without getting credit

train, prepare - undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid"

practice, practise, drill, exercise - learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"

train, educate, prepare, develop - create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"

indoctrinate - teach doctrines to; teach uncritically; "The Moonies indoctrinate their disciples"

drill - teach by repetition

catechise, catechize - give religious instructions to

reinforce, reward - strengthen and support with rewards; "Let's reinforce good behavior"

spoonfeed - teach without challenging the students; "This professor spoonfeeds his students"

induct - introduce or initiate; "The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession"

mentor - serve as a teacher or trusted counselor; "The famous professor mentored him during his years in graduate school"; "She is a fine lecturer but she doesn't like mentoring"

tutor - be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction; "She tutored me in Spanish"

unteach - cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier

unteach - cause to unlearn; "teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods"

ground - instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject

lecture, talk - deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

inform - impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to; "I informed him of his rights"

coach, train - teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew"

edify, enlighten - make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal"

condition - establish a conditioned response

insure, see to it, ensure, ascertain, check, assure, control, see - be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product"

ascertain, determine, find out, find - after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

test - determine the presence or properties of (a substance)