Past tense of brainwash
regular verb
The past tense of brainwash is brainwashed. The past participle is also brainwashed.
Forms of brainwash
| Base form (V1) | brainwash /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | brainwashed |
| Past participle (V3) | brainwashed |
| Present participle | brainwashing |
| Third person singular | brainwashes |
Brainwashed in a sentence
- Jet's been brainwashed!2006 November 3, Tim Hedrick, “Lake Laogai” (12:08 from the start), in Lauren MacMullan, director, Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 2...
- The news media brainwashed many people.
- The girls, it turns out, found the experience oddly positive, and not because they were brainwashed or Stockholm syndromed.2015 July 17, Sarah Lyall, “Review: In 'Pretty Is,' Grown Friends Recall Being Kidnapped”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Stockholm syndrome
- Davis was familiar with the Helsinki Syndrome, where hostages were brainwashed into thinking of their captives as friends.1999, Lee Butcher, Sex, Money and Murder in Daytona Beach, page 342. From the entry Helsinki syndrome
- For the worse, if you ask the billions of ordinary people now in daily danger of being atomized, brainwashed, or transmogrified into gooey flesh-sculptures.2023 September 14, HarryBlank, “The Breach Goes On: Wrong Tomorrow Hub”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2024. From the entry transmogrify
Meaning of brainwash
- noun A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
- verb To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis).
- verb To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960).
Questions about the past tense of brainwash
- What is the past tense of brainwash?
- The past tense of brainwash is brainwashed.
- What is the past participle of brainwash?
- The past participle of brainwash is brainwashed.
- Is brainwash a regular or irregular verb?
- Brainwash is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: brainwash (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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