Definition of brainwashings:
(v) :
(psychology, transitive) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
(n) :
A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
(v) :
(transitive) To persuade completely and forcibly.
(v) :
(figuratively, dated, transitive) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)