Stockholm syndroming

Verb

Stockholm syndrome (third-person singular simple present Stockholm syndromes, present participle Stockholm syndroming, simple past and past participle Stockholm syndromed)

1. (informal, transitive) To cause someone to become affected by Stockholm syndrome.
   • 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 York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

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