aivopestä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- brainwash verb To forcibly and systematically pressure someone into abandoning their existing beliefs and adopting new ones.
- indoctrinate verb To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
Senses
aivopestä is used for these senses in English:
- brainwash (psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
- indoctrinate To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
indoctrinate — full definition
- verb To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
- verb To teach and instill (something, to a person) in a biased, one-sided way.
- verb To teach; to instruct.