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say it: BRAYN-wahsht
brainwashed is an adjective meaning "subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones". It is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪnˌwɑʃt/ — BRAYN-wahsht. It carries one recorded sense.
subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones
“brainwashed prisoners of war”
“captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brainwashed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.