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instilled

/in-stild/US // ɪnˈstɪld //

灌输,灌输的,灌输了,被灌输的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : infused slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings: In some regions of the world, culturally instilled values are an enduring barrier to achieving sustainability.
    • : put into something drop by drop: Where a patient reacts to the instilled eye medication with dilation of the pupils, it could suggest Horner's syndrome.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbimplant, introduce

Examples

  • The strong ties he would cultivate with America were first instilled by his American mother.

  • If confidence and strength were instilled in her at a young age, glamour was something she pursued.

  • Chaz had instilled a will in him to live before and brought him back from the brink numerous times.

  • In being gutted by a linoleum knife, that dark image that Hannibal had instilled in him had been freed.

  • “This Congress has not instilled a helluva lot of confidence in the party,” says longtime consultant Mark Corallo.

  • Strange perhaps to say, the suggestion of the old dowager, like instilled poison, was making its way into her very veins.

  • Poison was instilled into bunches of natural roses, and the fragrance, when inhaled, gave death.

  • Many of these, that had been early instilled into my mind by the teachings of a good mother, still remained fixed and true.

  • Thus, care of horses, riding and driving, had to be instilled from the beginning.

  • She will be considered negligent unless she has instilled into his rudimentary mind a smattering of whatever is accounted smart.