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brainwash

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Verb (transitive)
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brain=wash

CIDE DICTIONARY

brainwashv. 
  •  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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