indoctrinate

Meaning

  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.
  3. (obsolete) To teach; to instruct.

Etymology

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

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