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LARN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gain knowledge or skills

Example:

Children acquire language at an amazing rate

Synonyms:

acquire; larn; learn

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "larn"):

relearn (learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it)

catch up (learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened)

absorb; assimilate; ingest; take in (take up mentally)

hit the books; study (learn by reading books)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

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