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guide

 
 
/gaɪd/ verb [T]

Definition

GO to help someone or something go somewhere: These missiles are guided by computers. He gently guided her back to her seat.
ADVISE to tell someone what they should do: She had no one to guide her as a teenager.
(Definition of guide verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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