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The Collaborative International Dictionary
brainwashing

brainwashing \brainwashing\ n. the process of forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brainwashing

1950, a literal translation of Chinese xi nao. A term from the Korean War.

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brainwashing

n. (alternative spelling of brain-washing English)

WordNet
brainwashing

n. forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs

Usage examples of "brainwashing".

Vickers and Benn are integrated with the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, the premiere brainwashing institution in the world.

Major John Rawlings Reese, a British Army technician, was instructed to set up the largest brainwashing facility in the world at the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations as a part of Sussex University.

Stanford and Willis Harmon, the induced trauma of long range penetration of which our education is a part, has been going on for 45 years, yet how many are aware of the insidious pressures being applied to our society and the constant exposure to brainwashing that goes on every day?

The Beatles were brought to the United States as part of a social experiment which would subject large population groups to brainwashing of which they were not even aware.

After a thorough brainwashing conducted by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations representative, A.

Haig played the lead role in brainwashing and confusing President Nixon, and in effect it was Kissinger who ran the White House during this softening up of the President.

William Paley was trained in mass brainwashing techniques at the Tavistock Institute prior to being passed as qualified to head CBS.

As an integral part of the Strategic Bombing Survey, Reliance established the initial structural base for brainwashing, opinion-making, polling, survey and the systems analysis used by the Tavistock Institute in the United States.

Tavistock to bring about massive charges in group orientation toward social, economic, religious and political events and brainwashing of target groups who then believe that opinions expressed and viewpoints taken are their own.

So elaborate and thoroughgoing were these brainwashing techniques, that eventually the D.

I understand you all too well and your reaction to me is directly related to the brainwashing by your aunt.

The beautiful truth is that those fears are all part of the brainwashing and, as such, can be removed before you actually stop smoking.

The beautiful truth is that both sets of fears are merely part of the brainwashing and as such can be removed before you finish the book.

Fortunately, we can remove the brainwashing before you extinguish your final cigarette.

After all, they are subjected to the massive brainwashing, and why would any of us be tempted to try those first experimental cigarettes unless we suspected that there was some pleasure or prop?