Instill vs Distill - What's the difference?
instill | distill |
To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
(lb) To subject a substance to distillation.
(lb) To undergo or be produced by distillation.
(lb) To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
(lb) To exude in small drops.
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(lb) To impart in small quantities.
(lb) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
(lb) To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Soft showers distilled , and suns grew warm in vain.
*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*:The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.
(lb) To be manifested gently or gradually.
(lb) To drip or be wet with.
As verbs the difference between instill and distill
is that instill is to cause a quality to become part of someone's nature while distill is to subject a substance to distillation.instill
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Alternative forms
* instil UKVerb
(en verb)- It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.