indoctrinate
verb /ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪt/
/ɪnˈdɑːktrɪneɪt/
(disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they indoctrinate | /ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪt/ /ɪnˈdɑːktrɪneɪt/ |
| he / she / it indoctrinates | /ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪts/ /ɪnˈdɑːktrɪneɪts/ |
| past simple indoctrinated | /ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈdɑːktrɪneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle indoctrinated | /ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈdɑːktrɪneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form indoctrinating | /ɪnˈdɒktrɪneɪtɪŋ/ /ɪnˈdɑːktrɪneɪtɪŋ/ |
- indoctrinate somebody (with something) | indoctrinate somebody (to do something) to force somebody to accept a particular belief or set of beliefs and not allow them to consider any others
- They had been indoctrinated from an early age with their parents' beliefs.
- The aim of religious education in this school is not to indoctrinate children into any one religious faith.
- The regime sought to indoctrinate the people with a sense of their own superiority.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: formerly also as endoctrinate: from en-, in- ‘into’ + doctrine + -ate, or from obsolete indoctrine (verb), from French endoctriner, based on doctrine ‘doctrine’.