nhồi sọ
Definition
- Verb:
- To brainwash: To force someone to accept specific ideas, beliefs, or information through persistent, intensive, and often coercive instruction, typically to the point where they lose their independent critical thinking.
- To cram (knowledge): To teach or force-feed a large amount of information into someone's mind, especially in a way that exceeds their normal capacity to understand or absorb it, often through rote learning.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Chế độ độc tài đó dùng truyền thông để nhồi sọ người dân. (That dictatorship uses the media to brainwash its people.)
- Giáo viên không nên nhồi sọ học sinh với quá nhiều bài tập. (Teachers should not cram students with too much homework.)
- Những tin tức giả mạo đó chỉ nhằm mục đích nhồi sọ mà thôi. (That fake news is only for the purpose of brainwashing.)
Advanced Usage
- The term often carries a strong negative connotation, implying manipulation, indoctrination, and a lack of intellectual freedom. It is frequently used in political, ideological, or educational criticism.
Variants and Related Words
- Sự nhồi sọ (n): The act or process of brainwashing; indoctrination.
- Sự nhồi sọ tư tưởng diễn ra trong nhiều năm. (The ideological indoctrination took place over many years.)
Synonyms
- To indoctrinate: To teach a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
- To inculcate: To instill an attitude, idea, or habit by persistent instruction.
- To cram: To study intensively over a short period just before an examination, similar to the educational sense of "nhồi sọ."
Related Idioms
- While "nhồi sọ" itself is not typically part of a longer idiom, its meaning is conceptually related to ideas of forced learning or thought control.
verb
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to stuff (sb's head)