Usually means: Indoctrination using psychological manipulation techniques.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. brainwashing: Merriam-Webster
  2. brainwashing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. brainwashing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. brainwashing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Brainwashing, brainwashing: Wordnik
  6. brainwashing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. brainwashing: Wiktionary
  8. brainwashing: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. brainwashing: Dictionary.com
  10. brainwashing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Brainwashing (TV-program), Brainwashing (disambiguation), Brainwashing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. brainwashing: Rhymezone
  13. brainwashing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. brainwashing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. brainwashing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brainwashing: Legal dictionary

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  1. brainwashing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. brainwashing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. brainwashing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brainwashing: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Brainwashing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Brainwashing)

noun:  Alternative spelling of brain-washing [A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture.]

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