verb
- Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.
- usage: "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained"
- synonyms: discipline, train, check, condition
- Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.
- usage: "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
- synonyms: discipline, correct, sort out
adjective
- Obeying the rules.
- Trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise.
- usage: "the beautiful coordination of his disciplined muscles"; "a disciplined mind"
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