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indoctrinating

indoctrinating is the present participle and gerund 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 indoctrinating

What is indoctrinating the present participle and gerund of?
Indoctrinating is the present participle and gerund of indoctrinate.

Words near indoctrinating in the dictionary

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

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