📒 to force somebody to accept your ideas or beliefs, for example by repeating the same thing many times or by preventing the person from thinking clearly
brainwash somebody The group is accused of brainwashing its young members.
brainwash somebody into doing something Women have been brainwashed into thinking that they must go out to work in order to fulfil themselves.
They were brainwashed into believing that their leader was all-powerful.