mindscrew
mindscrew noun: something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.
Noun
mindscrew (plural mindscrews)
- Something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.
- It's in television that Abrams, arguably more than Spielberg, has nudged the medium forward, with "Felicity," then "Alias" and finally the mindscrew of "Lost."2009 May 12, Jay A. Fernandez, “Abrams making a name for himself, but it's not Steven Spielberg just yet”, in The Hollywood Reporter
Verb
mindscrew (third-person singular simple present mindscrews, present participle mindscrewing, simple past and past participle mindscrewed)
- To destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind.
- About half the detectives thought his return to the old neighborhood was proof positive that he was out of control; still others believed he had ice water running through his veins, maybe even mindscrewing the cops by rubbing their noses in the fact they couldn't stop him even though they suspected...1997, Howard Swindle, Trespasses: Portraits of a Serial Rapist, Penguin, published 1997, →ISBN
mindscrew meaning in Bengali
mindscrew in Bengali
- বিভ্রান্ত, নিয়ন্ত্রণ করে, মানুষের মনকে অস্থির, নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা
Synonyms of mindscrew
Forms of mindscrew
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mindscrews |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mindscrews |
| present participle | mindscrewing |
| past participle | mindscrewed |
| past | mindscrewed |
Origin of mindscrew
From mind + screw (“to play with; to meddle”).
Questions about mindscrew
- What does mindscrew mean?
- Mindscrew means something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.
- What is mindscrew in Bengali?
- Mindscrew in Bengali is বিভ্রান্ত, নিয়ন্ত্রণ করে, মানুষের মনকে অস্থির. See Mindscrew meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is mindscrew?
- Mindscrew can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of mindscrew?
- The plural of mindscrew is mindscrews.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mindscrew (page history and authors); mindscrew (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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