inseminate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of INSEMINATE

to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set <the notion that their monarch ruled by divine right had been inseminated in the people for countless generations>

Synonyms breed, enroot, inculcate, infix, inseminate, instill, plant, sow

Related Words drive, hammer, pound; embed (also imbed), entrench (also intrench), fix, lodge, root; imbue, infuse, ingrain (also engrain), inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse

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