to indoctrinate
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8.1
- verb
- /ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪt/
:
adoctrinar
- Some activists are concerned that schools might indoctrinate students with political agendas.
- educate, not indoctrinate
- indoctrinate students
- indoctrinate the youth
You are being indoctrinated into a certain belief system.
- You are being indoctrinated into a certain belief system.
- Co workers or supervisors that themselves have been indoctrinated into an abusive workplace.
- You want to know what ideology they're being indoctrinated into?
- But you know, I was so indoctrinated into that life at some point, it's who I was.
- It is simply evil to indoctrinate kids with these falsehoods, with these lies.
- Just basically people are all indoctrinated, they're all like minded.
- It's because we have been indoctrinated to benefit Wall Street and the banks.
- We are raised and it is we are indoctrinated to be incredibly ethnocentric.
- But like a little bit of like how the government indoctrinates your children and like what?
- And these people are getting indoctrinated into this kind of woke ideology.
- You know, you see these, you know, training videos of kindergarteners indoctrinating them into hating Jews in Israel.
- Parents who love their kids, who don't want this kind of crap to indoctrinate their kids.
Examples
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Children are brought here at an early age to be indoctrinated to serve The System.
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The primary purpose of these schools was to indoctrinate students in the beliefs, faith, and rituals of the church.
Academic text (2015) -
We train them, we indoctrinate them.
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These are the people trying to indoctrinate people into religious organizations.
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Because like you cannot indoctrinate clients into moral values, right?
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It's because we have been indoctrinated to benefit Wall Street and the banks.
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You are being indoctrinated into a certain belief system.
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For Islamists, education is critical for indoctrinating the next generation of Muslims.
Academic text (2001) -
Each of those buildings was given a significant Navy name to aid in indoctrinating the future officers to Navy lore.
Academic text (2014) -
The French Interior Minister claimed that ninety percent of people recruited to terrorism are indoctrinated through internet content.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
118
7.3
To make someone accept different beliefs using pressure and tricks
12
9.1
To try to persuade someone to join another religion
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8.1
Teach someone a belief or habit by repeating it often
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5.6
Help a person change their habits or beliefs through training
5
9.1
To try to make many people believe false or one-sided information
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6.9
Try to persuade people to accept a belief, often a religious one
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4.7
To teach someone again so they learn new skills or change how they act
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7.0
To make someone accept ideas they do not want
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7.2
Force your beliefs on other people who do not want them
To try to make people support an idea or cause, often in politics
Antonyms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Indoctrinate comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and doctrina 'teaching', so it once meant to put teaching 'into' someone. It is the same root as doctrine, a set of beliefs, which helps explain why to indoctrinate is to teach people to accept certain ideas without question.