0 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.
1 to make people believe only what you want them to believe by continually telling them that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching them: --
Could it be that we’re brainwashed to accept these things?
We are all brainwashed, it seems, by the materialist assumptions of our society, concentrating on the physical wellbeing of people.
I regret to say that it has been brainwashed by a highly misleading document.
The wonderful thing, however, is that in spite of that brainwashing the steelworkers stood firm.
The solution being proposed is a vast information campaign, or rather an exercise in brainwashing on a continental scale.
What is more, the population is being brainwashed with advertising financed by the oligarchs’ millions.
By using the most obscene tricks of misinforming and brainwashing our people, it is also violating the rules of war.
I hope that they will not be as easily brainwashed as some folks are.
We must not, it seems to me, be distracted or brainwashed by simplistic rhetoric about bolstering up brutal dictatorships.