instill
/ɪnˈstɪl/ verb B2- To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature. · It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
- To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
He/she/it instills · Past instilled · Past participle instilled · -ing form instilling
Verb forms
- Base form
- instill
- He/she/it
- instills
- Past
- instilled
- Past participle
- instilled
- -ing form
- instilling
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The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.” Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.” Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
“Because it has instilled a new passion in your heart—that of vengeance.”
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