ALL meanings of brainwash
brain·wash
B b - verb brainwash If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly. 3
- verb brainwash to effect a radical change in the ideas and beliefs of (a person), esp by methods based on isolation, sleeplessness, hunger, extreme discomfort, pain, and the alternation of kindness and cruelty 3
- verb transitive brainwash to indoctrinate so intensively and thoroughly as to effect a radical transformation of beliefs and mental attitudes 3
- transitive verb brainwash indoctrinate 1
- intransitive verb brainwash indoctrinate into doing 1
- verb with object brainwash to cause (someone) to undergo brainwashing. 1
- noun brainwash the process of brainwashing. 1
- noun brainwash a subjection to brainwashing. 1
- noun brainwash An effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas. 0
- verb brainwash To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (i.e. hypnosis). 0
- verb brainwash (figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960). 0