Usually means: Impart gradually into someone's mind.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word instil:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. instil: Merriam-Webster
  2. instil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instil: Collins English Dictionary
  4. instil: Vocabulary.com
  5. instil: Wordnik
  6. instil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. instil: Wiktionary
  8. instil: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. instil: Dictionary.com
  10. Instil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. instil: Rhymezone
  12. instil: FreeDictionary.org
  13. instil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. instil: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. instil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instil: Idioms

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verb:  Australia, Ireland, and UK standard spelling of instill.

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