indoctrinate
verb (disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they indoctrinate | |
| he / she / it indoctrinates | |
| past simple indoctrinated | |
| past participle indoctrinated | |
| -ing form indoctrinating |
- 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 强行灌输（信仰或学说） They had been indoctrinated from an early age with their parents' beliefs. 他们从小就被满脑子灌入了他们父母的信仰。 The aim of religious education in this school is not to indoctrinate children into any one religious faith. 这所学校宗教教育的目的不是向孩子们灌输任何一种宗教信仰。 The regime sought to indoctrinate the people with a sense of their own superiority. 该政权试图向人民灌输一种优越感。
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’.