instill

Verb

Verb Forms: instilled, instilling, instills

• To gradually introduce an idea or feeling into someone's mind.
• impart gradually
  • "Her presence instilled faith into the children"
• enter drop by drop
  • "instill medication into my eye"
• produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
• teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
• fill, as with a certain quality
• To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
• To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.

Examples

• It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
• She hoped to INSTILL a passion for wordplay in her children through Words With Friends.

Synonyms

impregnate, impress, inculcate, infuse, ingrain, instil, tincture, transfuse, din

Related Words

inculcate, indoctrinate, infuse