Associations to the word «Brainwashed»

Wiktionary

BRAINWASH, noun. An effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas.
BRAINWASH, verb. To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (i.e. hypnosis)
BRAINWASH, verb. (figuratively) (dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)

Dictionary definition

BRAINWASH, verb. Persuade completely, often through coercion; "The propaganda brainwashed many people".
BRAINWASH, verb. Submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope