Crossword clues for brainwash
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
brainwash \brainwash\ v. [imp. & p. p. brainwashed; p. pr. & vb. n. brainwashing]
to persuade completely; as, the propaganda brainwashed many people.
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to to indoctrinate forcibly or by means of torture, or by constant psychological pressure.
Syn: submit to brainwashing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1955 (past participle adjective brainwashed attested from 1953); see brainwashing.
Wiktionary
n. An effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas. vb. 1 To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (i.e. hypnosis) 2 (context figuratively dated English) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
WordNet
v. persuade completely, often through coercion; "The propaganda brainwashed many people"
submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly
Wikipedia
Brainwash or Brainwashing may refer to:
- Mind control, a psychological technique
- Hjernevask or Brainwash, a Norwegian popular science documentary series
- Brainwash (EP), an EP by Spongehead
- Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control, a 2006 non-fiction book by Dominic Streatfeild
- Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control, a non-fiction book by Kathleen Taylor
- Brain-Washing (book), a book published by the Church of Scientology in 1955
- Mr. Brainwash, a French street artist and film-maker
Brainwash is an EP by Spongehead, released on April 26, 1994 by Triple X Records.
Usage examples of "brainwash".
Ellen James, poor child, had been brainwashed into her antifeminist stance by the male villain, Garp.
Took me a lifetime to figure out I was brainwashed in school, and then it takes an even longer time to get un-brainwashed, to start seeing the world as it is.
And, he now wondered, had Wayne Newell been so brainwashed that he was incapable of going over to the Americans?
So they brought out the experimental living esp-blockers, captured espers brainwashed and conditioned into obedient shells.
After that we need a protected place in which to hole up until the word has gone around that I can no longer be brainwashed or probed.
These seemingly 'educational' little blocks of connectable fun and happiness have irrevocably brainwashed entire generations of youth from the information-dense industrialized nations into developing mindsets that view the world as unitized, sterile, inorganic, and interchangeably modular-populated by bland limbless creatures with cultishly sweet smiles.
As she grew up, she watched TV shows about cults and believed that the people in cults were brainwashed, however, when she visited me in Paris, she thought that the Family was just like a group of peace-loving hippies.
Because the pink lady contended that she had been brainwashed by Mark Ahriman and subjected to sexual depravities, she resorted to a plea of self-defense.
Yen Lo had brainwashed some American soldiers, turning one of them into a robotic killer who remained unaware of what had been done to him.
Four—in The Manchurian Candidate, the brainwashed soldier is capable of committing murder on the direction of his controller, then forgetting every detail of what he’s done, but, get this, he’ll also follow instructions to kill himself if necessary.
I warned Pablo that whoever had brainwashed you was no amateur and that if they realized the two of you were trying to break through the Azrael Block, they might come after not just you but him as well.
In fact they were probably right here, being brainwashed with the rest of us.
If Gestron had been brainwashed, the mind-control experts had been as successful with him as with Faye Block.
When Jack Twist said nothing, Ernie continued: "It occurs to me that you were almost certainly forced to reveal your criminal life to the people who brainwashed us.
By definition, someone who's been brainwashed is operating at less than his optimum reasoning capacity.