to brainwash
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7.3
- verb
- /ˈbreɪnˌwɑʃ/
:
lavar el cerebro
- The cult used various techniques to brainwash its members into following its ideology.
- to brainwash children
But also that shows that AI can brainwash or rewire your brain.
- But also that shows that AI can brainwash or rewire your brain.
- You know, to brainwash yourself for success, these are the steps.
- It didn't enter my mind that anyone could brainwash me.
- And then, you know, they're not that old when you send them off to be, you know, brainwashed by people.
- By the way, First of all, plays the same song on loop constantly and brainwashes you.
- And, and, and that stuff, you know, gets through to people's brains and it it does brainwash people.
- They are trying to brainwash a future voting electorate to accept false results.
- Basically, if I take the most kind human being and I brainwash them, I can get them to do hate speech overnight.
- Actually, I think it's one of the symptoms, all or nothing, but I said you're just trying to brainwash me.
- And like, if people watch it, they can get brainwashed and they become these like, monsters.
- That tells you today CCP how much propaganda that is to brainwash its people.
Examples
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I basically brainwashed my entire school for an for a year.
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Are you trying to brainwash my son?
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You know, to brainwash yourself for success, these are the steps.
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In a certain respect, although we could brainwash you, maybe.
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The question is, did you brainwash her or did she brainwash you?
Fiction book (1998) -
What if essentially they could brainwash Americans using a social media app that we think of as entertainment?
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Yeah, but we're being brainwashed all the time not to think that.
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They tried to brainwash me, but I was a bad subject.
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"It's illegal in this country to brainwash children," Stevie said as he joined Brian.
Fiction book (1990) -
Prescription medication is not a problem like they have brainwashed everyone into thinking it is.
Blog text (4)
Synonyms
31
8.1
To teach people to accept beliefs without question, often to change how they think
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5.6
Help a person change their habits or beliefs through training
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7.0
To make someone accept ideas they do not want
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7.2
Force your beliefs on other people who do not want them
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8.9
Force someone to accept ideas or opinions without their choice
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8.3
Make someone accept ideas or opinions they do not want by pressuring them
Persuade someone to do what you want
Antonyms
- Formal
13
6.8
To give someone deep spiritual understanding through teaching or practice
How Coercive
118
7.3
31
8.1
806
2.3
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2.7
472
2.7
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1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brainwash comes from a Chinese phrase that literally means 'wash the brain', using the simple image of wash as 'to clean'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture someone trying to 'wash' away a person's old thoughts, which explains why to brainwash someone is to forcefully change their beliefs.