brainwash
verb (used with object)
to cause (someone) to undergo brainwashing.
was brainwashing
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past progressiveof brainwash.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Earlier this year, a number of families complained to authorities that another cryptocurrency academy was brainwashing their children into spending their money on courses with promises they would become wealthy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
"He was brainwashing her into thinking that she had the same ideas as him and she didn't."
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2022
Speaking of which, did you know Big Bird was brainwashing children?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021
So this was brainwashing – whole days spent repeating the same idiotic phrases.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2021
In 1797, a Bedlam inmate named James Tilly Matthews became convinced that an insidious device called an "air loom" was brainwashing politicians.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2018
