brain-washing
Noun
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Noun
brain-washing
- A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture
- coercive persuasion
- mind control
- menticide
- re-education
- thought control
- thought reform
- French: lavage de cerveau
- German: Gehirnwäsche, Mentizid
- Italian: lavaggio del cervello
- Portuguese: lavagem cerebral
- Russian: промыва́ние мозго́в
- Spanish: lavado de cerebro, comedura de coco (Spain, colloquial)
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