to reinstill
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5.9
- verb
- /ˌriːɪnˈstɪl/
- US
- To boost morale, the manager hopes to reinstill confidence in the team after the recent setbacks.
Examples
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The bill's primary sponsor, Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt, called it "a first step" in "reinstilling the value of human life."
Academic text (1999) -
Instead, through its view of nature as the work of God, it reinstilled nature with an intrinsic moral value, while at the same time advocating nature's aesthetic value to man.
Academic text (1999) -
Interchangeably referred to as "Afrocentric," "Africentric," or "African-centered," interventions are based on the principle of reinstilling traditional African and African American cultural values in people of African descent.
Academic text (2009) -
It describes not only how these movements provided a new basis for reinstilling in nature a subjective value, but, at the same time, indirectly exacerbated and modified the ideology of separation.
Academic text (1999) -
The teacher aimed to reinstill a love for reading in her students through engaging book discussions.
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Community leaders are working to reinstill trust among residents by organizing monthly meetings.
Synonyms
122
3.8
Make someone feel healthy and full of energy again
97
3.7
Start again after a pause, often a relationship or activity
82
4.8
To gradually make someone feel, believe, or value something
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4.3
To bring back something that stopped or was lost
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5.1
Make a feeling or interest strong again
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6.8
Bring something back into use after it was forgotten
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4.6
To make an interest, feeling, or activity start again after it stopped
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6.1
Make a feeling, interest, or memory strong again
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5.1
Make a feeling, interest, or memory come back
1
5.6
To make someone feel excited and ready to try new things
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6.5
To make people or things feel more energetic again
To put an idea, feeling, or habit back into people's minds
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Etymology
Reinstill comes from re- 'again' and instill, a word that originally meant 'to drop into', so imagine slowly putting drops of water back into a cup, like the quiet action in distill. So to reinstill a feeling or habit is to 'put it back in' little by little until it returns.