verb B2 Upper-Intermediate

instil

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Instil (verb) means Australia, Ireland, and UK standard spelling of instill.

verb

Australia, Ireland, and UK standard spelling of instill.

""If we do not instil public confidence in the system, I fear the public will lose confidence and even fewer people will travel by rail."" — , Network News: Labour reiterates demand for full public ownership (2020)

"her only real object in this call had been to instil a general uneasiness into Diva’s mind about the coal strike" — Edward Frederic Benson, Miss Mapp (1922)

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