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n. (context science fiction English) The act of mindwiping. vb. (context transitive science fiction English) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
Wikipedia
Mindwipe is the name of two fictional characters in the Transformers toy line and fictional series by Hasbro. Both are Decepticons.
A mindwipe is a memory erasure procedure used in a number of fictional stories in which the subject's memories and sometimes personality are erased. Often those are replaced by new memories more useful to those who are carrying out the mindwiping. It is a more thorough form of brainwashing. It is sometimes used as an alternative to capital punishment, or to make the subject more useful to the system. The mindwipe can be performed by a hypnotic or magical ability, or by an electronic device. It is often coupled with stories where the characters have amnesia, although the latter concept includes cases that occur naturally or by accident instead of the result of a deliberate procedure.
Usage examples of "mindwipe".
The technicians of the Final Authority would do their version of a mindwipe on her, rename her Mellia Gayl, and send her along to a deserted place to wait for a boob named Ravel to come along and be led into the parlor—and to work her destruction in turn.
The technicians of the Final Authority would do their version of a mindwipe on her, rename her Mellia Gayl, and send her along to a deserted place to wait for a boob named Ravel to come along and be led into the parlorand to work her destruction in turn.
The technicians of the Final Authority would do their version of a mindwipe on her, rename her Mellia Gayl, and send her along to a deserted place to wait for a boob named Ravel to come along and be led into the parlor--and to work her destruction in turn.
Let him stew over the assertion that she couldn't possibly get a fair trial, let him think—as he must be thinking now—about the danger that she'd end up as the mindwiped toy of some corrupt official.
Go ahead and see me mindwiped, or sent to prison until I'm too old to care," she said wearily.
Let him stew over the assertion that she couldn't possibly get a fair trial, let him think — as he must be thinking now — about the danger that she'd end up as the mindwiped toy of some corrupt official.
Whoever or whatever mindwiped the Captain might still be around, and the same white suit that hid him in the fog and the snow worked against him in the dark cemetery.
Sixteen hundred humans, fortunately not all of them mindwiped but many with abused bodies and minor injures, were disembarked from the two ships.
The things the universe had to show them, the secrets it was trying to tell them, to whisper in their eyes and ears and brains, would turn them all into gibbering, slobbering mindwipes if they looked at it for long.
Then you were into mindwipes, and that was something everybody tried to avoid at all costs.
Korozhet mindwiping techniques scoured all traces of memory and existing personality from the brain.
She didn't understand all the woman's chatter about genetic alterations and improving mankind, but she understood mindwiping, all right.
She didn’t understand all the woman’s chatter about genetic alterations and improving mankind, but she understood mindwiping, all right.