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brainwashing
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Definitions

  1. 1. brainwashing
This noun and verb (する) refers to the act of brainwashing, meaning to manipulate someone's beliefs or thinking through psychological pressure or repeated conditioning. It is used in contexts involving cults, propaganda, or coercive control over a person's mind.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

The training coordinator said, "This is safety education, not ideological brainwashing."

Sentence 2

She cried, saying, "I was brainwashed by my family into getting married."

Sentence 3

Wait, isn't this a textbook brainwashing tactic?

Sentence 4

How can you believe that so completely — have you been brainwashed or something?

Sentence 5

The reporting team gathered testimony that "the victims had been in a brainwashed state."