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单词 indoctrinate
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Definition of indoctrinate in English:

indoctrinate

verb ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪtɪnˈdɑktrəˌneɪt
[with object]
  • 1Teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

    broadcasting was a vehicle for indoctrinating the masses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • According to theologian, we are all indoctrinated in the myth of redemptive violence: The basic belief that violence can create peace.
    • She begs him to teach and indoctrinate her into the ways of what he does.
    • In some societies children are indoctrinated in religious beliefs and values.
    • Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality?
    • At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
    • Her character talks about how having a baby indoctrinates you, like it or not, into a great big club.
    • If the attempts are successful, students will be indoctrinated with pseudoscientific beliefs and will leave school with warped and restricted views of reality.
    • But feminism has too fully indoctrinated us in the idea that the female position is necessarily the weaker one.
    • Once you are indoctrinated into these organizations, there's no turning back.
    • Each episode their singing slowly indoctrinated me into the religion known as modern music.
    • Has an atheist who practices religion in Borneo overcome the beliefs he was indoctrinated with?
    • I was born into a staunch Roman Catholic family and was indoctrinated with those beliefs as I grew up.
    • At 10 he was shipped off to a Roman Catholic military academy in Los Angeles where he was indoctrinated by ‘tough Irish nuns’.
    • Nurses have been indoctrinated with the belief that doctors are capable of exercising only a cold, scientific medical model.
    • I dropped my belief in a god several years ago and I was indoctrinated in one of the most religiously oriented states in America.
    • The consumer media culture indoctrinates us into believing that what we do for work and the success we have there is a measure of our worth as individuals.
    • But both parties must realise that marriage is a far less definitive, far less protective and far less stable force than we are indoctrinated to believe.
    • ‘If our aim is to indoctrinate students with unpatriotic beliefs,’ he said, ‘we're obviously doing a very poor job of it’.
    Synonyms
    brainwash, propagandize, proselytize, inculcate, re-educate, persuade, convince, condition, discipline, mould
    instruct, teach, school, drill, ground
    1. 1.1archaic Teach or instruct (someone)
      he indoctrinated them in systematic theology

Derivatives

  • indoctrinator

  • noun
    • And of course some indoctrinators are more thorough and thought-preventive than others are.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It favours those who have never made a mistake, or never dared to challenge their indoctrinators.
      • If that is that case, the indoctrinators, like Aldous Huxley's controllers, become all-powerful.
      • Religious indoctrinators of every denomination must be salivating: all those innocent minds to corrupt, sorry, convert - and all on state money.
      • The indoctrinators have very organized steps and styles that correspond to the levels and types of control.
  • indoctrinatory

  • adjective
    • Religious instruction can be single-faith and indoctrinatory; religious education is usually multi-faith, and relatively balanced and objective.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most of the current history textbooks in the district contain a good deal of indoctrinatory propaganda.
      • There is an inference here that teaching is somehow indoctrinatory and it's a perspective I've suspected behind many a grab for classroom hegemony.

Origin

Early 17th century: formerly also as endoctrinate): from en-1, in-2 'into' + doctrine + -ate3, or from obsolete indoctrine (verb), from French endoctriner, based on doctrine 'doctrine'.

 
 

Definition of indoctrinate in US English:

indoctrinate

verbɪnˈdɑktrəˌneɪtinˈdäktrəˌnāt
[with object]
  • 1Teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

    broadcasting was a vehicle for indoctrinating the masses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She begs him to teach and indoctrinate her into the ways of what he does.
    • If the attempts are successful, students will be indoctrinated with pseudoscientific beliefs and will leave school with warped and restricted views of reality.
    • I was born into a staunch Roman Catholic family and was indoctrinated with those beliefs as I grew up.
    • ‘If our aim is to indoctrinate students with unpatriotic beliefs,’ he said, ‘we're obviously doing a very poor job of it’.
    • Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality?
    • According to theologian, we are all indoctrinated in the myth of redemptive violence: The basic belief that violence can create peace.
    • But feminism has too fully indoctrinated us in the idea that the female position is necessarily the weaker one.
    • At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
    • Nurses have been indoctrinated with the belief that doctors are capable of exercising only a cold, scientific medical model.
    • In some societies children are indoctrinated in religious beliefs and values.
    • The consumer media culture indoctrinates us into believing that what we do for work and the success we have there is a measure of our worth as individuals.
    • Her character talks about how having a baby indoctrinates you, like it or not, into a great big club.
    • Once you are indoctrinated into these organizations, there's no turning back.
    • I dropped my belief in a god several years ago and I was indoctrinated in one of the most religiously oriented states in America.
    • Has an atheist who practices religion in Borneo overcome the beliefs he was indoctrinated with?
    • At 10 he was shipped off to a Roman Catholic military academy in Los Angeles where he was indoctrinated by ‘tough Irish nuns’.
    • But both parties must realise that marriage is a far less definitive, far less protective and far less stable force than we are indoctrinated to believe.
    • Each episode their singing slowly indoctrinated me into the religion known as modern music.
    Synonyms
    brainwash, propagandize, proselytize, inculcate, re-educate, persuade, convince, condition, discipline, mould
    1. 1.1archaic Teach or instruct (someone)
      he indoctrinated them in systematic theology

Origin

Early 17th century: formerly also as endoctrinate): from en-, in- ‘into’ + doctrine + -ate, or from obsolete indoctrine (verb), from French endoctriner, based on doctrine ‘doctrine’.

 
 
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