GDict

indoctrinate

in'dɒktrineit4 senses · 478 ms
Level C2GRE
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verb
  1. 1

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

  2. 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. 3

    To teach; to instruct.obsolete

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