indoctrinate
- to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- to teach or inculcate.
- to imbue with learning.
Origin of indoctrinate
Synonyms for indoctrinate
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inculcate, instill, imbue, program, plant, influence, school, initiate, instruct, train, drill, teach, convince, implant, groundExamples from the Web for indoctrinate
Contemporary Examples of indoctrinate
They want to indoctrinate impressionable young minds by placing these gay characters on pedestals in a positive light.
He then proceeded to rant about “liberal college professors” trying to “indoctrinate” students.
Christian Movie War: Pro-Life ‘October Baby’ vs. Postmodern ‘Blue Like Jazz’Marlow Stern
April 12, 2012
Santorum also complains about “some liberal college professor … trying to indoctrinate” students.
Historical Examples of indoctrinate
She comes to indoctrinate you, to put you against me, is it not so?
Doctor PascalEmile Zola
So one of your trained psychopropagandists can indoctrinate me?
VictoryLester del Rey
She begged him to indoctrinate his successor, Mr. Edward Stanhope.
The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2Edward Tyas Cook
"Oh, certainly; I will indoctrinate Dolly," said the Doctor.
Poganuc PeopleHarriet Beecher Stowe
In broad terms, all these publications were designed to indoctrinate specific groups of people, generally in their places of work.
Area Handbook for BulgariaEugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
indoctrinate
- to teach (a person or group of people) systematically to accept doctrines, esp uncritically
- rare to impart learning to; instruct