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brainwash
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb brainwash has 2 senses
- brainwash(v = verb.communication) Array - persuade completely, often through coercion; "The propaganda brainwashed many people" is one way to persuade
- brainwash(v = verb.cognition) Array - submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly; Array is one way to indoctrinate
Sample sentence:
They brainwash him to write the letter
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
brainwash, v.
- to persuade completely; as, the propaganda brainwashed many people. [WordNet 1.5]
- to to indoctrinate forcibly or by means of torture, or by constant psychological pressure. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
brainwash, v.tr. subject (a person) to a prolonged process by which ideas other than and at variance with those already held are implanted in the mind.
Derivative
brainwashing n.
THESAURUS
brainwash
alienate, beat into, catechize, condition, corrupt, counterindoctrinate, imbue, implant, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infix, infuse, inoculate, instill, program, reindoctrinate, subvert, win away
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