brainwashed
past simple and past participle ofbrainwash
| 单词 | brainwashed |
| 释义 | brainwashed past simple and past participle ofbrainwash brainwash verb[T] disapprovinguk/ˈbreɪn.wɒʃ/us/ˈbreɪn.wɑːʃ/to make someonebelievesomething byrepeatedlytellingthem that it istrueandpreventingany otherinformationfromreachingthem : Theirgovernmentistryingto brainwash themintothinkingthatwarcannot beavoided. Urging & persuading
Examplesofbrainwashedbrainwashed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nigerians have been sobrainwashed, so terrorised and intimidated via globalization that they have become totally disenfranchised and disillusioned. From theCambridge English Corpus What if we evaluate our lives favorably only because we have beenbrainwashedor manipulated? From theCambridge English Corpus Imagine someone who has been 'brainwashed' into believing that he is guilty of some crime. From theCambridge English Corpus We must not, it seems to me, be distracted orbrainwashedby simplistic rhetoric about bolstering up brutal dictatorships. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that they will not be as easilybrainwashedas some folks are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 What is more, the population is beingbrainwashedwith advertising financed by the oligarchs’ millions. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English I regret to say that it has beenbrainwashedby a highly misleading document. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are allbrainwashed, it seems, by the materialist assumptions of our society, concentrating on the physical wellbeing of people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Those young people have not all beenbrainwashed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They can bebrainwashedwhen repeated allegations are made day after day over a trial lasting some five months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I know too many who have never beenbrainwashedby officials, let alone frequentlybrainwashed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He has tried to reverse the argument by maintaining that doctors have beenbrainwashed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he aware that people driving 300 miles from the south, having beenbrainwashedby motorway conditions, suddenly find themselves on a dual carriageway? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I was becomingbrainwashedinto believing that they were a confident, self-assured team who knew how to run the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If we are to survive as a nation, we must stop beingbrainwashed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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