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Instil vs Brainwash - What's the difference?

instil | brainwash |

As verbs the difference between instil and brainwash

is that instil is while brainwash is to affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process (ie hypnosis).

As a noun brainwash is

an effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas.

instil

English

Verb

(instill)

    • Derived terms

    * reinstil

    brainwash

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • An effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas.

    • Verb

  • To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (i.e. hypnosis)
  • (figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)