brainwash

verb

1. 给（某人）洗脑；强制说服
   to force sb to accept your ideas or beliefs, for example by repeating the same thing many times or by preventing the person from thinking clearly
   1. The group is accused of brainwashing its young members.
      那个团体被指控对年轻成员洗脑。
   2. Women have been brainwashed into thinking that they must go out to work in order to fulfil themselves.
      妇女们被反复灌输的思想是：她们必须出去工作，才能实现自己的价值。

1. VERB 给…洗脑；向…强行灌输
   If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
   1. They brainwash people into giving up all their money...
      他们向人们强行灌输放弃所有钱财的思想。
   2. I'd been brainwashed into believing I was worthless...
      我被洗了脑，认为自己一文不值。
   3. We were brainwashed to believe we were all equal.
      我们被洗了脑，认为人人都是平等的。

1. They brainwash people into giving up all their money
   他们向人们强行灌输放弃所有钱财的思想。
2. I'd been brainwashed into believing I was worthless
   我被洗了脑，认为自己一文不值。
3. We were brainwashed to believe we were all equal.
   我们被洗了脑，认为人人都是平等的。
4. Don't let television commercials brainwash you into buying anything you actually don't need.
   别让电视广告引诱你购买自己实际不需要的东西。
5. Almost every day I hear parents complain that the commercials they see over and over again brainwash the kids into buying stuff they don't really need.
   我几乎每天都听到家长们在抱怨说，这些孩子看了又看那些电视广告，结果他们都去买那些他们根本用不着的产品。
6. The repetition of the same commercials on television is just trying to brainwash consumers into compulsive consumption.
   电视上反复播放的广告，就是想通过反复宣传让消费者不自觉地购买。
7. The government is trying to brainwash the people into thinking that a war is necessary.
   政府正试图将战争是必要的观念强行灌输给人们。
8. On YouTube, there is a three-minute video trying to brainwash us into smiling.
   YouTube上有一个3分钟的视频，试图说服我们微笑。
9. Baioney! Don't IET her brainwash you with that.
   胡说，不能让她制服你。

verb

1. submit to brainwashing

2. persuade completely, often through coercion
   1. The propaganda brainwashed many people