educate
verb (used with object)
to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling.
had educated
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past perfectof educate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The creator, who has more than 1.4m followers on TikTok, has since apologised and said she had "educated herself on Welsh history".
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025
By the time we sat down to eat, Chef Maxx had educated me on the multinational influences in St. Lucian Creole cooking, and we were all laughing about our favorite culinary memories.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
“Many of the women couldn’t even pronounce the word ‘mammogram,’ and some confused mammograms with having breast cancer because no one had educated them,” Weaver says.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2021
The Dick School had educated generations of Dubois County residents in rural Jasper from 1892 to 1951.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 26, 2020
He remembered the aged necromancer who had educated him—who had educated him with animals.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
