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/ˈbrānˌwôSH/,/-ˌwäSH/,
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brainwashes, 3rd person singular present; brainwashing, present participle; brainwashed, past tense; brainwashed, past participle;
  1. Make (someone) adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure
    • - the organization could brainwash young people
    • - they have beenbrainwashed into conformity and subservience
  1. persuade completely, often through coercion; "The propaganda brainwashed many people"
  2. submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly
  3. (brainwashed) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones; "brainwashed prisoners of war"; "captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers"
  4. (brainwashing) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs
  5. Brainwash is the quintet Filipino rock band.
  6. Circle of Power, a 1983 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White , was based on the book '. The film is also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend'''.
  7. YTV is a Canadian English-language cable television specialty channel aimed at youth, available nationwide through cable and satellite television. Presently it is wholly-owned by Corus Entertainment. "YTV" is thought to mean "Youth Television", however the channel's website denies this.
  8. (Brainwashed (album)) Brainwashed is the final studio album by George Harrison. The album was released in 2002, almost a year after Harrison's death at the age of 58. As a posthumous release, Brainwashed garnered much attention upon its unveiling.
  9. (Brainwashed (film)) Brainwashed (original title Schachnovelle) is a German film. The 1960 film is based on Stefan Zweig's novella The Royal Game.
  10. (Brainwashing) Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s) ...
  11. An effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas; To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (i.e. hypnosis); To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
  12. (Brainwashed) These abilities are only active when you control a M'arrillian Cheiftan.
  13. (BRAINWASHING) the methodology for changing attitudes or altering beliefs through the systematic use of TORTURE, drugs, physical deprivation or isolation, mental or psychological stress, as practiced by communist regimes on foreign and domestic prisoners; see ROPE TRICK, PLAYING THE XYLOPHONE, ...
  14. (Brainwashing) [Chinese hsi nao = "wash brain"] A specific historical instance of forcible indoctrination, and a sub-technique of the broader practice of Communist Chinese thought reform. ...
  15. (Brainwashing) cognitive accommodation
  16. (Brainwashing) n. A cold Big Brother's constant barrage of propoganda to people under his thumb.
  17. (Brainwashing) non-conspiratorial thinking, thought processes which involve documented information and scientific data.
  18. (Brainwashing) the process of instilling in someone’s mind  certain attitudes and beliefs in order to   change  a person’s value system, thoughts pattern and behaviour.
  19. (brainwashing) Coercive persuasion that aims to change beliefs; see also compliance.
  20. (brainwashing) The altering of a person’s social and political views by severe physical and psychological conditioning, e.g., the techniques used by religious cults to indoctrinate new converts.
  21. Impose beliefs on somebody: to impose a set of usually political or religious beliefs on somebody by the use of various coercive methods of indoctrination, including destruction of the victim’s prior beliefs.