brainwash

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

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