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UK
/ɪnstˈɪl/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈstɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈstɪɫ/ ]
VERB
-
teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
inculcate values into the young generation -
impart gradually
Her presence instilled faith into the children
transfuse love of music into the students -
enter drop by drop
instill medication into my eye -
fill, as with a certain quality
The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide -
produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us
How To Use instill In A Sentence
- It was intended to be a horizon altering and opening experience that instilled the anthropological attitude.
- It was intended to be a horizon altering and opening experience that instilled the anthropological attitude.
- We believe that this directly relates to reality programming that has been instilled in our race since its conception.
- I think it frustrates adults when they cannot instill their ideas into teens.
- The full moon instilling some notion of romanticism in the minds of the stupid humans.
- The circulating nurse instills tetracaine hydrochloride drops to decrease the burning sensation of the diluted povidone-iodine solution.
- Sure enough, the tremor of his voice instilled fear but something within felt familiar with his malevolent aura.
- That is an attitude and a behaviour that he instilled over many years because they had success through that. Times, Sunday Times
- Fallopian tube patency can be confirmed by detecting an enhanced signal after instilling microbubbles into the uterine cavity.
- But a strong work ethic was instilled in him at an early age.
