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indoctrinates

indoctrinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about indoctrinates

What is indoctrinates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Indoctrinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of indoctrinate.

Words near indoctrinates in the dictionary

  1. indoctrinable
  2. indoctrinate
  3. indoctrinated
  4. indoctrinatee
  5. indoctrinatees
  6. indoctrinates
  7. indoctrinating
  8. indoctrination
  9. indoctrinational
  10. indoctrinations
  11. indoctrinator

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