indoctrinate

English

Verb

indoctrinate (third-person singular simple present indoctrinates, present participle indoctrinating, simple past and past participle indoctrinated)

1. to teach with a biased , one-sided or uncritical ideology.
2. to brainwash.

Related terms

• docent
• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document

Translations

to teach with a biased or one-sided ideology

• Finnish: indoktrinoida (fi), aivopestä (fi)
• French: endoctriner (fr)
• German: indoktrinieren (de)
• Latin: addoctrinare (la), indoctrinare (la)

• Polish: indoktrynować (pl)
• Romanian: îndoctrina (ro)
• Spanish: adoctrinar (es)
• Swedish: indoktrinera (sv)

brainwash — see brainwash

External links

• indoctrinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• indoctrinate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911