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Meaning of brainwashing

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

brainwashing

noun

Definitions

  1. 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

verb

Definitions

  1. To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)

  2. To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)

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