Instill
Instill verb - To set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set.
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Synonyms for Instill
Take and instill are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take" instead a verb "Instill".
Take
Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.
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Dark Is Not Evil: The modern take on Sinestro explores this, as far as him wanting to instill "order" throughout the universe as the motive for his villainy, which often plays out like an Evil Plan.
Source: Franchise / Green Lantern - The Substitute movies are a rather dark and action-y take on the old formula, as the main character's approach to violent gang-bangers invading the school isn't so much to instill them with a passion for academics as it is to smash them in the face and then throw them out a 3rd-story window.
Source: Save Our Students - Fist of the North Star has Raoh, who after the nuclear apocalypse that engulfed the world, took the name Ken-Oh (meaning "King of Fist") and began a campaign of conquest to take over what was left, and instill order in a chaotic age.
Source: Dark Messiah
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