MEANING
1. To instill beliefs or doctrine in a way that discourages critical questioning.
2. To instruct someone in a doctrine or subject in an older or broader usage.
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Words that belong together
- indoctrinate recruits
- indoctrinate into a belief
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The group indoctrinated the recruits through repeated demands for agreement.
She distinguished being taught a history from being indoctrinated into one account.
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Word forms
- Base
- indoctrinate
- Past tense
- indoctrinated
- Past participle
- indoctrinated
- Present participle
- indoctrinating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- indoctrinate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are indoctrinating
- Present perfect
- have/has indoctrinated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been indoctrinating
- Past
- indoctrinated
- Past continuous
- was/were indoctrinating
- Past perfect
- had indoctrinated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been indoctrinating
- Future
- will indoctrinate
- Future continuous
- will be indoctrinating
- Future perfect
- will have indoctrinated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been indoctrinating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: indoctrinate; indoctrinates; indoctrinated; indoctrinated; indoctrinating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: indoctrinates.
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