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inculcating

verb , present participle of inculcate

Synonyms and Antonyms of inculcating

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 inculcating

enduing (or induing), imbuing, infusing, ingraining (also engraining), inoculating, investing, steeping, suffusing

Words Related to inculcating

animating, charging, enlivening, invigorating, leavening

implanting, instilling, planting

impregnating, permeating, pervading, saturating

deluging, drowning, filling, flooding, inundating, overwhelming, submerging

Near Antonyms of inculcating

depriving, divesting, stripping

clearing, emptying

eliminating, removing, taking (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 inculcating

breeding, enrooting, implanting, infixing, inseminating, instilling, planting, sowing

Words Related to inculcating

driving, hammering, pounding

embedding (also imbedding), entrenching (also intrenching), fixing, lodging, rooting

imbuing, infusing, ingraining (also engraining), inoculating, investing, steeping, suffusing

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