trained
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- v create by training and teaching
- v undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
He trained as a legal aid - v develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
Is this dog trained? - v educate for a future role or function
They trained him to be a warrior - v teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- v point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
He trained his gun on the burglar - v teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- v exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
- v cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
- v travel by rail or train
She trained to Hamburg - v drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
She trained her long scarf behind her - a shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form
a trained mind
trained pigeons
well-trained servants
- Still, Koenig acknowledges that even a properly trained military is not right for the long-term job of dealing with a disaster's aftermath.
- Which says nothing of Fisher's conviction that her Jesus Camp is an anodyne for similar institutions in the Muslim world where, she believes, children are being trained as suicide .
- On the new interrogation tactics he was trained to utilize: "The quickest way to get most (but not all) captives talking is to be nice to them.