reeducate

verb

re·​ed·​u·​cate (ˌ)rē-ˈe-jə-ˌkāt How to pronounce reeducate (audio)
reeducated; reeducating; reeducates

transitive verb

: to train again
especially : to rehabilitate through education
reeducative adjective

Examples of reeducate in a Sentence

The program reeducates people about how to eat in a more healthful way. We need to reeducate the workers who lost their jobs when the factory closed.
Recent Examples on the Web The label was removed after California Hospital Medical Center turned in a plan that included reeducating staff in its labor and delivery department on detecting and treating hemorrhages, according to the state report on its findings. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023 That label was dropped after the hospital submitted a plan to fix the problems, including reeducating nurses on measures to prevent blood clots. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023 In the midst of a hedonistic era, Deyhle had a vision of holistically treating illnesses and also reeducating people about food. Janine Di Giovanni, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023 In the context of entrepreneurship, having an educator’s mindset means constantly striving to educate and reeducate the people around you about your vision. Yec, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022 In the fifth Scream, the killer is motivated to bring things back to basics and reeducate the next generation about classic scares of yore. David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022 In the Soviet sector, authorities in 1946 founded DEFA, a monopoly film production company that used the famous Babelsberg studio outside Berlin and its personnel to start making movies meant to reeducate the German people after years of Nazi rule. David Rising, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020 As with all of these mega-[corporations], staff turnover is high, which means that we are constantly forced to reeducate each successive team. Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020 So my son had to educate and reeducate himself to the new and the old simultaneously, not unlike Jerry Garcia and the guitar after his stroke. Mike Mikula, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2019

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Word History

First Known Use

1779, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of reeducate was in 1779

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“Reeducate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reeducate. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

reeducate

verb
re·​ed·​u·​cate (ˈ)rē-ˈej-ə-ˌkāt How to pronounce reeducate (audio)
: to train again
especially : to cause to develop new attitudes or habits through education

Medical Definition

reeducate

transitive verb
re·​ed·​u·​cate (ˈ)rē-ˈej-ə-ˌkāt How to pronounce reeducate (audio)
reeducated; reeducating
: to subject to reeducation

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