brainwashing
b rayn wo shing
- n forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs
- v persuade completely, often through coercion
- v submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly
- Men have always fought for control over the minds of their fellows, but it is only recentlylargely because of the furor over brainwashingthat the methods of gaining such .
- Rather than any lefty, neo-socialist, communitarian brainwashing, President Obama's speech to your kids reads like a paean to individual striving and free market capitalism, the .
- The agency's search for the secret of brainwashing The apartments in New York City and San Francisco were tarted up with red draperies, dressing tables trimmed in black.