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inculcated

verb , past tense of inculcate

Synonyms and Antonyms of inculcated

1 to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle

dedicated teachers inculcating young minds with a love of learning

Synonyms of inculcated

endued (or indued), imbued, infused, ingrained (also engrained), inoculated, invested, steeped, suffused

Words Related to inculcated

animated, charged, enlivened, invigorated, leavened

implanted, instilled, planted

impregnated, permeated, pervaded, saturated

deluged, drowned, filled, flooded, inundated, overwhelmed, submerged

Near Antonyms of inculcated

deprived, divested, stripped (also stript)

cleared, emptied

eliminated, removed, took (away)

2 to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set

a malcontent who inculcated in his offspring an abiding distrust of all civil authority

Synonyms of inculcated

bred, enrooted, implanted, infixed, inseminated, instilled, planted, sowed

Words Related to inculcated

drove, hammered, pounded

embedded (also imbedded), entrenched (also intrenched), fixed, lodged, rooted

imbued, infused, ingrained (also engrained), inoculated, invested, steeped, suffused

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