to implant
16
5.7
- verb
- /ɪmˈplænt/
:
inculcar
- Her parents aimed to implant a sense of responsibility in her by assigning small chores.
- implant in the mind
- implanted memories
- implant capitalism
What are the classical liberal strains that Cochran implanted or pulled through Churchill?
- What are the classical liberal strains that Cochran implanted or pulled through Churchill?
- Things like race essentialism, like collective guilt, like neo segregation and then re implant them in our institutions.
- I mean, what if we build a kind of psychological robot that can sort of mess around with your neurons and implant the memory of having just played golf?
- And somehow they, they implanted all these crazy ideas in your brain and cut to it looks like they really did.
- And that's the kind of thing if you couldn't, if you could implant that kind of feeling into young people, then the world might be a better place.
- And he always used to implant these ideas the when he was flying high in my head as a kid, the you could have a nice car, like I have a nice car.
Examples
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Because I have their rapt attention, I also implant some anti-drug-use ideas in only ten seconds.
Academic text (1993) -
Through repeated practice, we can implant positive habits in our daily routines.
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For years I implanted the vision of your face into his memory.
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"We make the mindsets, we implant a few, we sell the rest."
Fiction book (1996) -
Yet, the hope to be part of a dream was implanted in me.
Fiction book (1994) -
And that's the kind of thing if you couldn't, if you could implant that kind of feeling into young people, then the world might be a better place.
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Such comments substantiate the Tarzan image of Africa that television has successfully implanted in the minds of most Americans.
Academic text (1996) -
By the end of the war, the mystique of Rolls-Royce had been firmly implanted in the British psyche.
Academic text (1997) -
It turns out that the same sort of experiments and same sort of research has been done with considerable success in implanting false memories in adults.
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Teachers strive to implant critical thinking skills in their students from a young age.
Synonyms
108
6.4
To put an idea or feeling into someone's mind so it stays there
80
3.9
To make an idea or habit become fixed in someone's mind
71
4.8
To gradually make someone feel, believe, or value something
45
6.7
To make an idea or belief so strong that it is hard to change
37
4.6
Fill someone or something with a feeling like confidence
31
6.1
To make a habit or idea a strong lasting part of someone's life
22
6.9
To fill a person or thing with a particular quality
12
4.8
To fix an idea firmly in someone's mind so they remember it
9
8.1
Teach someone a belief or habit by repeating it often
3
6.0
To make an image or memory stay clearly in someone's mind
2
7.4
To teach someone ideas to protect them from other opinions
To make an idea or habit stay in a person's mind
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
28
3.8
A device that doctors put inside a breast to rebuild or enlarge it
- Specialized
3
7.5
A device put into the penis by surgery to help men who cannot get an erection
- Specialized
1
3.7
A small metal piece placed in the jaw to hold a new artificial tooth
- Specialized
A small artificial lens placed in the eye that moves to help you see near and far
- Specialized
A clear artificial lens placed in the eye to replace a cloudy natural lens after cataract surgery
- Specialized
An artificial lens with one focus placed in the eye to give clear distance vision after cataract surgery
- Specialized
An artificial device put in the eye that helps you see near and far without glasses
- Specialized
A clear artificial lens placed inside the eye to replace the natural lens after cataract surgery
How Deep
45
6.7
88
4.8
31
6.1
16
5.7
108
6.4
520
2.1
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Implant comes from old parts in- 'into' and plant 'to put in the ground', so it originally meant 'to plant inside'. So to implant an idea is like putting a seed in someone's mind that can grow into a belief.