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Past tense of indoctrinate

regular verb

The past tense of indoctrinate is indoctrinated. The past participle is also indoctrinated.

Forms of indoctrinate

Base form (V1)indoctrinate
Past tense (V2)indoctrinated
Past participle (V3)indoctrinated
Present participleindoctrinating
Third person singularindoctrinates

Indoctrinated in a sentence

  • It is altogether inaccurate to suggest that Europe is being indoctrinated with Fascism or Racism.1932 October 21, Sisley Huddleston, “Europe Painted in Fascist Colors”, in Christian Science Monitor, →ISSN, page 8. From the entry racism
  • Everyone's beïng indoctrinated, us as much as them.2001 September 12, Peter de Vroomen, “Re: There^([sic]) fucking partying”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry beïng
  • “Being human yet indoctrinated with a Vulcan way of life causes an inner conflict that is familiar to a lot of people.”2019 January 22, CBS All Access, “Women Drive the Action in ‘Star Trek: Discovery’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry Vulcan
  • The Marine Corps has instituted a martial-arts program in which leathernecks are indoctrinated in a new code of honor, the Ethical Marine Warrior.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 318. From the entry leatherneck

Meaning of indoctrinate

  1. verb To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
  2. verb To teach and instill (something, to a person) in a biased, one-sided way.
  3. verb To teach; to instruct.

Full definition of indoctrinate

Questions about the past tense of indoctrinate

What is the past tense of indoctrinate?
The past tense of indoctrinate is indoctrinated.
What is the past participle of indoctrinate?
The past participle of indoctrinate is indoctrinated.
Is indoctrinate a regular or irregular verb?
Indoctrinate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indoctrinate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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