Usually means: Indoctrinates beliefs through psychological manipulation.
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(Note: See brainwash as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (brainwash)

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