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instil

Verb

Meaning

enter drop by drop

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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people. And spreading fear is called terrorism. Yanis Varoufakis

The Jesuits had helped to instil in me this thought that our calling in life was to be, to use the phrase: 'a man for others.' Tony Abbott

Venomous animals, when they bite or sting, inflict a wound, and instil into it a drop or more of liquor, which infects the fluid of the nerves, and by this means inflames the membranes: hereupon a swelling arises, sometimes to a degree of mortification, which spreads to the neighbouring parts. Richard Mead

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

instill medication into my eye Source: Internet

And their band name, Wascally Wabbit, lives up to the sense of abandon that they want to instil in future numbers, too. Source: Internet

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