Meaning of inculcate in English

inculcate
verb [ T ]
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/ˈɪŋ.kʌl.keɪt/ uk

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/ˈɪŋ.kʌl.keɪt/
to fix beliefs or ideas in someone's mind, especially by repeating them often:
Our coach has worked hard to inculcate a team spirit in/into the players.
Synonym
infuse
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inculcate | Intermediate English

inculcate
verb [ T ]
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/ɪnˈkʌlˌkeɪt, ˈɪn·kʌl-/
to cause someone to have particular beliefs or values by repeating them frequently:
The goal is to inculcate in students a tolerance for people of other religions and races.
(Definition of inculcate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of inculcate

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Some of them have done everything to secure their congregations from inculcating values to shutting the doors of horizontal learning.
From Dallas Morning News
To study them for the beliefs that artists and publishers meant to inculcate in us is to understand ourselves more deeply.
From San Francisco Chronicle
This limitation reinforces the erroneous idea that only entities formed to inculcate religious values deserve protection for conscience.
From Heritage.org
It seems to be inculcated in our culture.
From Huffington Post
One can not eradicate one way of looking at life, he says, without inculcating a new faith in its place.
From The Atlantic
Primarily, it's the fact that they inculcate within their teenagers the idea of mandatory service.
From Huffington Post
A reverence for the laws, would be sufficiently inculcated by the voice of an enlightened reason.
From Heritage.org
Parents and friends inculcate into the minds of children what and who are trustworthy and desirable.
From CNN
Suffice it to say that inculcating the norm of consent is a work in progress.
From The Atlantic
The supremacy of "order" is inculcated from birth and buttressed on legal, cosmological and societal levels.
From Huffington Post
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