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Brainwash vs Manipulate - What's the difference?

brainwash | manipulate |

As verbs the difference between brainwash and manipulate

is that brainwash is to affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process (ie hypnosis) while manipulate is to move, arrange or operate something using the hands.

As a noun brainwash

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

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)

    • manipulate

    English

    Verb

    (manipulat)
  • To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
  • To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
  • (medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose

    • Related terms

    * manipulandum (pos n) * manipulation (pos n)

    See also

    * pedipulate ----