brainwashing
noun
Meaning
- 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
- To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
- To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
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