brainwasher
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈbreɪnˌwɑːʃər/
:
lavador de cerebro
- She warned her friends about the brainwasher who tries to manipulate their opinions online.
Examples
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- She pulled me out of the brainwasher.
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Brainwasher.
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I wonder if today's college "professor" brainwashers ever bother to inform their empty-headed students of that little statistic?
Blog text (6) -
Moreover, it is precisely because students are so young, so inexperienced, and so vulnerable that they attract the attentions of brainwashers.
Academic text (1992) -
Another inconvenient fact unlikely to be cited by GLSEN brainwashers is that the German SHR, the world's first organization to define homosexuality as a struggle for "human rights."
Blog text (15) -
Bizarre as it might seem, Rayford Steele was one of only four people on the planet who knew the truth about Nicolae Carpathia—that he was a liar, a hypnotic brainwasher, the Antichrist himself.
Fiction book (1997) -
The cult leader was a skilled brainwasher, convincing his followers to abandon their families.
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Parents often worry about brainwashers influencing their children through social media.
Synonyms
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A person who controls people in a clever or unfair way to get what they want
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5.5
A person who tricks others by making them believe something not true
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9.9
A person who secretly controls someone to get their own advantage
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3.7
A person who convinces others to do or believe something
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8.9
A person who tries to convince others to follow a religion or belief
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4.7
A person or thing that makes someone change what they think and do
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8.2
A person who secretly controls other people from behind the scenes
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8.9
A person who teaches others to accept beliefs without letting them ask questions
A person who tricks others by saying things that are not true
Showing one-sided or false information meant to help a political group
A person who tries to make others change their beliefs
A person who tries to get others to change their religion or beliefs
A person who secretly controls people from behind the scenes
Antonyms
How Manipulative
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- Offensive
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6.2
- Texting
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- US
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word brainwasher is made from brain and wash, and comes from a Chinese phrase that means 'wash the brain' used to describe forcing people to change their ideas. So a brainwasher is someone or something that washes away old thoughts and puts in new ones, often by force or by tricks.