brainwashing
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈbreɪnˌwɑːʃɪŋ/
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lavado de cerebro
- Many call Opus Dei a brainwashing cult.
- brainwashing and mind control
- claims of brainwashing
- testimony on brainwashing
That's not love, It's brainwashing that's making that person follow you.
- That's not love, It's brainwashing that's making that person follow you.
- By the way, if you're new, there's going to be lots of brainwashing from your neighbor.
- I, I I'm not sure where you go from persuasion to brainwashing.
- Also, the drugs and whatnot make you much more vulnerable to information, to brainwashing, right?
- And just know that I have been a whistleblower from day one about the fuckery and the brainwashing going on in the American suburbs.
- That she's, she's done enough brainwashing and enough manipulating so that when you leave the house, you don't say too much.
- The Scottish world psychiatrist who did brainwashing.
Examples
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I said it was an evil brainwashing tool used by big corporations to corrupt the peoples.
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But some of the kids were breaking down under what amounted to brainwashing.
Fiction book (1995) -
How do we escape that that brainwashing or that sort of system that we're in?
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Your job is to resist brainwashing as long as possible and just try to help these poor people.
Fiction book (1997) -
The television is an instrument of brainwashing; it's not a trusted source of real news.
Blog text (4) -
I'm on to your brainwashing tricks.
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What goes on in these places is not brainwashing, but explanation and argumentation; not indoctrination, but reasoning.
Academic text (2003) -
Many cults use brainwashing techniques to manipulate their followers' beliefs.
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The documentary revealed the brainwashing tactics used during the political regime.
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Victims of brainwashing often struggle to regain their sense of identity.
Synonyms
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To teach people to accept beliefs without question
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Forcing people to give up their beliefs and accept new ones
Teaching people a set of beliefs and stopping them from asking questions
Antonyms
How Coercive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brainwashing comes from a Chinese phrase that literally means 'wash the brain' and became common in English in the 1950s. Think of brain + washing — like cleaning a cloth — to remember it: it describes forcing someone to change their beliefs by trying to wash away their old ideas.