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indoctrine

indoctrine is the archaic form 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.

Forms of indoctrine

third-person singular presentindoctrines
present participleindoctrining
past participleindoctrined
pastindoctrined

Questions about indoctrine

What is indoctrine the archaic form of?
Indoctrine is the archaic form of indoctrinate.

Words near indoctrine in the dictionary

  1. indoctrinational
  2. indoctrinations
  3. indoctrinator
  4. indoctrinators
  5. indoctrinatory
  6. indoctrine
  7. indoctrined
  8. indoctrinee
  9. indoctrinees
  10. indoctrines
  11. indoctrining

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