brainwash

Object

• people: What happened there was carried out by sick, brainwashed people.
• child: We haven't got a school full of evangelical teachers who are brainwashing children.
• public: What motive is gained in brainwashing the general public in this way?
• everyone: Our society tends to want to manipulate of brainwash everyone into conforming to a politically correct norm.
• fanatic: Many thanks for helping to stop the brainwashed religious fanatics from tearing the planet apart.
• kid: At school, they try to brainwash the kids with simplistic happy slogans to fight the fear of living.

Subject

• medium: Most of your colleagues and friends will have been brainwashed by the media and their education.
• government: Another suggested that I was gullible for doubting alien abduction and that I had been brainwashed by the government.

Infinitive complement

• believe: Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe.
• become: The Manchurian Candidate A Korean War veteran becomes obsessed by the idea that a hero is being brainwashed to become a political assassin.

Modifying Another Word

• so: I think the rest of the population is so brainwashed they don't know what to think.
• not: But the POW has been brainwashed not by some foreign despot, but by our own right wing ideology.
• n't: It has n't brainwashed us into doing so, we are capable of rational thought.
• totally: Fifteen years later, she is still totally brainwashed and in thrall of the control-freakery madman.
• effectively: IT IS A FACT that the men are effectively brainwashed.
• even: Big business brainwashing Even in other schools the influence of big business is increasing.

Preposition: by

• medium: Most of your colleagues and friends will have been brainwashed by the media and their education.
• government: Another suggested that I was gullible for doubting alien abduction and that I had been brainwashed by the government.