brainwash

Pronunciation

• enPR: brān'wŏsh, IPA ^(key): /ˈbreɪnwɒʃ/

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Verb

Plain form brainwash

Third-person singular brainwashes

Past tense brainwashed

Past participle brainwashed

Present participle brainwashing

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you are brainwashed by something, you have been persuaded or convinced that something is real.

   North Korean citizens are being brainwashed by the media in their country about the West being evil.

   Encyclopedias and dictionaries are brainwashed by science and evolution, and don't feel that God, the Bible, or creation is real, because of science and other religions and their "gods".

Related words

• brain
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