English words for 'To undo the process of indoctrination.'
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- The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
- The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
- the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
- an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior
verb
- cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
- cause to unlearn
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to unlearn; to make (someone) forget something they have been taught, or recognize it as erroneous, etc.
- (transitive) To cause (something previously learned) to be forgotten, or recognized as an error, etc.
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noun
- (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
- (uncountable, informal) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
- (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
- (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
- (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
- a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- an institution to express belief in a divine power
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- purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
- (transitive) To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
- (transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
- (transitive) To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.
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- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
- (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
- Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- heal or recover
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
noun
- (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
- (countable) An act of repairing.
- (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- the act of putting something in working order again
verb
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
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noun
- The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
- The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
- the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
- an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
- cause to unlearn
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to unlearn; to make (someone) forget something they have been taught, or recognize it as erroneous, etc.
- (transitive) To cause (something previously learned) to be forgotten, or recognized as an error, etc.
verb
noun
- (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
- (uncountable, informal) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
- (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
- (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
- (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
- a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- an institution to express belief in a divine power
verb
- purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
- (transitive) To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
- (transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
- (transitive) To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing.
noun
verb
- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
- (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
- Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- heal or recover
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
noun
- (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
- (countable) An act of repairing.
- (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- the act of putting something in working order again
verb
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.