brain-washing

Noun.  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(reference-book, year 1990) (reference-book, year 2000) (reference-book, year 2001) (reference-book, year 2007) .

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