different between indoctrinate vs propagandize

English

Etymology

in- +? doctrine +? -ate

Verb

indoctrinate (third-person singular simple present indoctrinates, present participle indoctrinating, simple past and past participle indoctrinated)

1. To teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
2. (obsolete) To teach; to instruct.

Derived terms

• indoctrination

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Further reading

• indoctrinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• indoctrinate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

propaganda +? -ize

Verb

propagandize (third-person singular simple present propagandizes, present participle propagandizing, simple past and past participle propagandized)

1. (intransitive) To use or spread propaganda.
2. (transitive) To tell propaganda to someone in an attempt to influence one's views.
   • 1987, Barbara Alpern Engel, Clifford N. Rosenthal, Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar

     After we'd managed to make ourselves comfortable in this garret, my new friends began to propagandize me. All they knew about me was that I was a student […]

3. (transitive) To use something or someone in propaganda purposes.
   • 1989, Judith E. Zimmerman, Mid-Passage

     He propagandized this panacea with single-minded determination throughout the revolutionary period and even managed to establish a People's Bank for a short time before his arrest in 1849.