BRAINWASH

brainwash

(verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly

brainwash

(verb) persuade completely, often through coercion; “The propaganda brainwashed many people”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

brainwash (uncountable)

A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.

Verb

brainwash (third-person singular simple present brainwashes, present participle brainwashing, simple past and past participle brainwashed)

To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)

(figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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