indoctrinateverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈdɒk.trɪ.neɪt/us/ɪnˈdɑːk.trə.neɪt/disapprovingto often repeat an idea or belief to someone in order to persuade them to accept it:
Some parents were critical of attempts to indoctrinate children in green ideology.
They have been indoctrinated by television to believe that violence is normal.
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Saying again
- circle
- drum
- echo
- flog
- flog sth to death idiom
- go/run around in circles idiom
- go/run round in circles idiom
- inculcate
- labour the point idiom
- not hear the end/last of sth idiom
- parrot-fashion
- rake
- recapitulate
- regurgitate
- rehash
- repetitive
- retweet
- tautology
- trot
- wheel
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indoctrination
noun [ U ] uk/ɪnˌdɒk.trɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˌdɑːk.trəˈneɪ.ʃən/
religious/political/ideological indoctrination