"indoctrinate" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-indoctrinate.wav Forms: indoctrinates [present, singular, third-person], indoctrinating [participle, present], indoctrinated [participle, past], indoctrinated [past]
Etymology: From in- + doctrine + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French endoctriner. Etymology templates: {{af|en|in-|doctrine|-ate|id3=verb|pos3=verb-forming suffix}} in- + doctrine + -ate (verb-forming suffix), {{cog|fr|endoctriner}} French endoctriner Head templates: {{en-verb}} indoctrinate (third-person singular simple present indoctrinates, present participle indoctrinating, simple past and past participle indoctrinated)
  1. To teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash. Translations (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology): adoctrinar (Catalan), 向……灌輸 (english: to impart; to instill) (Chinese Mandarin), 向……灌输 (xiàng... guànshū) (Chinese Mandarin), 洗腦 (to brainwash) (Chinese Mandarin), 洗脑 (xǐnǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), indoktrinovat (Czech), indoctrineren (Dutch), indoktrinoida (Finnish), aivopestä (Finnish), endoctriner (French), adoutrinar (Galician), indoktrinieren (German), addottrinare (Italian), addoctrino (Latin), indoctrino (Latin), indoktrynować (Polish), doutrinar (Portuguese), endoutrinar (Portuguese), îndoctrina (Romanian), adoctrinar (Spanish), indoktrinera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-indoctrinate-en-verb-d3JDPeyM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in-, English terms suffixed with -ate (verb), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 58 42 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate (verb): 74 26 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 73 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of 'teach with a biased or one-sided ideology': 62 38
  2. (obsolete) To teach; to instruct. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-indoctrinate-en-verb-awVK0eyw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: indoctrination Related terms: docent, docile, doctor, doctorate, doctrinaire, doctrinal, doctrine, document

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.