instilled

[ in-stild ]

adjective

1. infused slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings:

   In some regions of the world, culturally instilled values are an enduring barrier to achieving sustainability.

2. put into something drop by drop:

   Where a patient reacts to the instilled eye medication with dilation of the pupils, it could suggest Horner's syndrome.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of instill ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of instilled¹

instill + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

The strong ties he would cultivate with America were first instilled by his American mother.

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If confidence and strength were instilled in her at a young age, glamour was something she pursued.

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Chaz had instilled a will in him to live before and brought him back from the brink numerous times.

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In being gutted by a linoleum knife, that dark image that Hannibal had instilled in him had been freed.

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“This Congress has not instilled a helluva lot of confidence in the party,” says longtime consultant Mark Corallo.

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Strange perhaps to say, the suggestion of the old dowager, like instilled poison, was making its way into her very veins.

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Poison was instilled into bunches of natural roses, and the fragrance, when inhaled, gave death.

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Many of these, that had been early instilled into my mind by the teachings of a good mother, still remained fixed and true.

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Thus, care of horses, riding and driving, had to be instilled from the beginning.

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She will be considered negligent unless she has instilled into his rudimentary mind a smattering of whatever is accounted smart.

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