brainwashing

C1 FREQ #24568

n. 洗脑

发音

US

词形变化

brainwashings 复数 brainwashings

别名

brain-washing

释义与例句

n. C1
  1. 1.

    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.

    洗脑

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of brainwash

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

indoctrination

词源

Calque of Chinese 洗腦 /洗脑 (xǐnǎo, literally “wash brain”). First use appears c. 1950.

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