0 past simple and past participle of brainwash
1 to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching them :
Their government is trying to brainwash them into thinking that war cannot be avoided.
Nigerians have been so brainwashed, so terrorised and intimidated via globalization that they have become totally disenfranchised and disillusioned.
What if we evaluate our lives favorably only because we have been brainwashed or manipulated?
Imagine someone who has been ' brainwashed ' into believing that he is guilty of some crime.
We must not, it seems to me, be distracted or brainwashed by simplistic rhetoric about bolstering up brutal dictatorships.
I hope that they will not be as easily brainwashed as some folks are.
What is more, the population is being brainwashed with advertising financed by the oligarchs’ millions.
I regret to say that it has been brainwashed by a highly misleading document.
We are all brainwashed, it seems, by the materialist assumptions of our society, concentrating on the physical wellbeing of people.
