indoctrinate

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Definition of indoctrinate

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

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

  1. 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.”
    “She […] felt uncomfortable that she was to her mind 'pushing Christian values'. Apparently lurking beneath her discomfort was a sense that she was required to indoctrinate Christian values in a search for conformity rather than teaching to promote autonomy, which she regarded as her professional commitment.”
    “Further still, there were other little boys and girls whose parents DID know about the history [of the show promoting racism] who may have surely taken the time to infuse and indoctrinate it into the next generation.”
  3. (obsolete)To teach; to instruct.

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Etymology

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

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