to instill
71
4.8
- verb
- /ɪnˈstɪl/
- US
:
inculcar
- Parents, as well as the extended family, need to instill moral values in their children.
- instill confidence
- instill values
- instill a sense
It's what I'm constantly trying to instill in people that I talked to.
- It's what I'm constantly trying to instill in people that I talked to.
- How do we as parents instill that mindset in our kids?
- You know, I just want to, I want to instill confidence in others.
- Throughout your younger years, I've always wanted to instill these three qualities in you.
- And I try hard to instill that in my kids.
- And so he wanted to instill those values into us.
- And he just instilled that sense of security.
- I believe you as the feedback or response that can instill real confidence over time.
- And the growth mode is instilled by blue light, which is from the sun.
- And so I think you're trying to still instill a lesson there.
- But my granddad was the man that just instilled the don't back down.
- Like what's what, what are you trying to instill in them for their lives?
Examples
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The ultimate objective of schooling is to instill in students a desire to learn.
Academic text (1994) -
That is a value that I want to instill in my children.
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You know, I just want to, I want to instill confidence in others.
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And I try hard to instill that in my kids.
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How do we as parents instill that mindset in our kids?
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Even more than that, teachers of literacy hope to instill in their students a love of reading and writing.
Academic text (2012) -
The independence that we try to instill also goes beyond the classroom.
Academic text (1990) -
How do we create a classroom environment that instills lasting reading behaviors in our students?
Academic text (2012) -
In so doing, he sought to instill a sense of pride among marginalized Americans in their ethnicity.
Academic text (2013) -
Teachers aim to instill a love of reading in their students.
Synonyms
837
3.2
Cause someone to feel excited and ready to act
168
5.3
Cause a process, event, or feeling to start
108
6.4
To put an idea or feeling into someone's mind so it stays there
82
4.1
To help a skill, interest or relationship grow
80
3.9
To make an idea or habit become fixed in someone's mind
62
3.9
Add a new idea or quality to something
57
4.1
Cause a feeling or strong reaction in people
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
26
6.9
To make a feeling or situation start
22
6.9
To fill a person or thing with a particular quality
17
4.8
To give a quality or feeling to something
16
5.7
Put a strong idea or belief into someone's mind
9
8.1
Teach someone a belief or habit by repeating it often
1
7.3
To give people a feeling or idea over time
1
9.2
To make someone feel a strong emotion
To make an idea or habit stay in a person's mind
To make someone feel brave and excited
Antonyms
How Deep
31
8.1
22
6.9
- Formal
9
8.1
- US
71
4.8
∞
1.0
∞
2.3
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Instill comes from the Latin parts in- 'in' and stillare 'to drip', giving the image of 'dropping in' something little by little. That's why to instill an idea or value is to give it slowly until it becomes part of a person.