brainwash
verb (used with object)
to cause (someone) to undergo brainwashing.
were 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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He complained to a delegation of New England Democrats that the Iranian militants were brainwashing the hostages by isolating them from each other and telling them that they had been abandoned by the U.S.
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