Synonyms of the word inculcate


INCULCATEDRILL - INFUSE - INSTILL

inculcate

  • v. (transitive) To teach by repeated instruction.
  • v. (transitive) To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.

drill

  • v. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
  • v. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
  • v. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
  • v. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
  • v. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level.
  • v. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
  • v. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
  • v. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
  • v. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
  • n. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into…
  • n. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
  • n. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds…
  • n. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
  • n. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
  • n. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation…
  • n. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
  • n. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that…
  • n. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but…
  • n. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

infuse

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
  • v. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
  • v. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
  • v. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
  • v. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

instill

  • v. To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
  • v. To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.

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