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advise

 
/ədˈvɑɪz/ verb (present participle advising, past tense and past participle advised)

Definition

B1 to tell someone that he or she should do something: I would advise him to see a doctor.
(Definition of advise verb from the Webster's Essential Mini Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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