brainwash
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
brainwash (uncountable)
- A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
- French: lavage de cerveau
- German: Gehirnwäsche, Hirnwäsche
- Italian: lavaggio del cervello
- Portuguese: lavagem cerebral
- Russian: промыва́ние мозго́в
- Spanish: lavado de cerebro
brainwash (brainwashes, present participle brainwashing; past and past participle brainwashed)
- To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
- (figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
- French: décerveler, laver le cerveau, bourrer le crâne
- Italian: fare il lavaggio del cervello
- Portuguese: fazer lavagem cerebral em
- Russian: промыва́ть мозги́
- Spanish: lavar el cerebro
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