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Definition: Brainwashed |
BrainwashedAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brainwashed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Antonym: unbrainwashed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brainwashed |
| English words defined with "brainwashed": brainwash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "brainwashed": CPU Wars. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Talkin' black, brainwashed from rock and rap (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | Everybody's been so brainwashed into thinking tobacco is as evil as any substance known to man. |
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| "Brainwashed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 76.67% of the time. "Brainwashed" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 76.67% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "brainwashed": management-brainwashed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brainwashed | 19 |
brainwashed george harrison | 14 |
brainwashed george harrison lyrics | 6 |
brainwashed.com godspeed | 4 |
brainwashed lyrics | 4 |
brainwashed harrison | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "brainwashed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | unterzog Gehirnwäsche. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ainwashedbray | ||||
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"Brainwashed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: branaghed, rainwashed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brainwashed" (pronounced brā"nwÄ'sht) |
| 4 | -w Ä' sh t | whitewashed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-h-i-n-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: rainwashed. | |
-2 letters: brainwash, hairbands. | |
-3 letters: airheads, araneids, banished, banisher, bawdries, brandies, brandish, dishware, hairband, rainwash, rawhides, swanherd, warheads. | |
-4 letters: abashed, abiders, abrades, airhead, airshed, araneid, banders, bandies, banshie, basined, bawdier, bawdies, bearish, behinds, binders, brained, braised, darbies, darshan, dashier, dharnas, diabase, handier, handsaw, hardens, hardies, hernias, hinders, inbreds, indabas, inwards, naiades, nerdish, radians, randies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-h-i-n-r-s-w" | |
+5 letters: weatherboardings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 61 69 6E 77 61 73 68 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .- .. -. .--. .- ... .... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110111 01100001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r a i n w a s h e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0061 0069 006E 0077 0061 0073 0068 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3684677580896785747170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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