(instructs, instructing, instructed)
1.
If you instruct someone to do something, you formally tell them to do it. (FORMAL)
The family has instructed solicitors to sue Thomson for compensation...
'Go and have a word with her, Ken,' Webb instructed...
I want you to instruct them that they've got three months to get the details sorted out.
VERB: V n to-inf, V with quote, V n that, also V n with quote
2.
Someone who instructs people in a subject or skill teaches it to them.
He instructed family members in nursing techniques.
VERB: V n in/on n, also V