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indoctrinate

verb

Etymology

From in- + doctrine + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French endoctriner.

  1. derived from doctrina
  2. formed as indoctrinate — “in- + doctrine + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology

    To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.

  2. To teach and instill (something, to a person) in a biased, one-sided way.

    • [...] it was beyond their hope to indoctrinate Marxism-Leninism-Mao's "thought" into the mind of young generation. The young generation does not care about Communism.
    • [They] attempt to further indoctrinate Christian values into local communities by first distorting the substance of the traditional rituals and then imputing another set of values to them.

  3. To teach

    To teach; to instruct.

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Derived

counterindoctrinate, indoctrinable, indoctrinatee, indoctrination, indoctrinator, indoctrinatory, indoctrinee, misindoctrinate, reindoctrinate, unindoctrinated

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA