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indoctrinate

verb

  1. brainwash
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Wiktionary

verb

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

  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.

    [...] it was beyond their hope to indoctrinate Marxism-Leninism-Mao's "thought" into the mind of young generation. The young generation does not care about Communism.

    [They] attempt to further indoctrinate Christian values into local communities by first distorting the substance of the traditional rituals and then imputing another set of values to them.

  3. To teach; to instruct.