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Indoctrinate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
  2. 2
    teach doctrines to; teach uncritically wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    To teach; to instruct. obsolete

Etymology

From in- + doctrine + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French endoctriner.

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