1. Brainwashing only works when the brainwasher is in a superior position to the victim. This means that the victim has to be broken down, so the brainwasher can rebuild the victim in his or her image

2. (tr) to effect a radical change in the ideas and beliefs of (a person), esp by methods based on isolation, sleeplessness, hunger, extreme discomfort, pain, and the alternation of kindness and cruelty Derived forms of Brainwash Brainwasher, noun Brainwashing, …

3. Hewitt's courage in writing a book that exposes Jehovah's Witnesses for what they are - a cult of brainwashers and Brainwashees, no different from any other group that professes to be "the only true religion" - because leaving the cult no doubt cost him dearly in …