re-educate re-educates re-educating re-educated in AM, also use reeducate If an organization such as a government tries to re-educate a group of people, they try to make them adopt new attitudes, beliefs, or types of behaviour. We are having to re-educate the public very quickly about something they have always taken for granted. + re-education re-education a programme of punishment and re-education of political dissidents. to teach someone to think or behave in a different way