Usually means: Imparts qualities or values gradually.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. instills: Merriam-Webster
  2. instills: Collins English Dictionary
  3. instills: Vocabulary.com
  4. instills: Wordnik
  5. instills: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. instills: Wiktionary
  7. instills: Dictionary.com
  8. instills: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. instills: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instills: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. instills: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. instills: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instills: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (instill)

verb:  (transitive) To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
verb:  (transitive) To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
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