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menticide

[ men-tuh-sahyd ]

noun

  1. the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of menticide1

1950–55; < Latin ment- (stem of mēns ) mind + -i- + -cide

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