indoctrinate
verb (used with object)
to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
was indoctrinating
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past progressiveof indoctrinate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Maybe all that passive resistance mumbo-jumbo Morgan was indoctrinating him with worked?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2016
Yes, last time Carrie went off her meds, she built herself a wall of crazy and figured out that Abu Nazir’s “fallow period” was when he was indoctrinating Brody.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2013
