brainwash
verb (used with object)
to cause (someone) to undergo brainwashing.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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For years on end, complained Dewi, "these publications have been brainwashing the Japanese people with all manner of imagined poison about me."
From Time Magazine Archive
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