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indoctrinated

indoctrinated is the simple past and past participle of indoctrinate.

Meaning of indoctrinate

Verb

indoctrinate (third-person singular simple present indoctrinates, present participle indoctrinating, simple past and past participle indoctrinated)

  1. To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
  2. To teach and instill (something, to a person) in a biased, one-sided way.
    • [...] it was beyond their hope to indoctrinate Marxism-Leninism-Mao's "thought" into the mind of young generation. The young generation does not care about Communism.1987, Asian Outlook
  3. (obsolete) To teach; to instruct.

Words formed from indoctrinated

Questions about indoctrinated

What is indoctrinated the simple past and past participle of?
Indoctrinated is the simple past and past participle of indoctrinate.

Words near indoctrinated in the dictionary

  1. indocilities
  2. indocility
  3. indoctrinability
  4. indoctrinable
  5. indoctrinate
  6. indoctrinated
  7. indoctrinatee
  8. indoctrinatees
  9. indoctrinates
  10. indoctrinating
  11. indoctrination

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