brainwash

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
2. verb To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
3. verb To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
4. verb To persuade completely and forcibly.

   The news media brainwashed many people.

Similar words

brainfuck propoganda misindoctrination black propaganda mispersuasion mindfuck facticide distortion mindfuckery mindscrew

Often followed by

the them you us me him people and their

Word family

brainwashed brainwasher brainwashers brainwashes brainwashing brainwashings