memory-wipe

present singular third person memory-wipes · participle present memory-wiping · participle past memory-wiped · past memory-wiped

1. transitiveuncommonTo erase memories, or specific memories, from the mind of (a person or being).

   I've asked my father to memory-wipe the other kids, so that they won't remember today.

   2007, Sara Bradshaw, Rachel Barber, Daniel Cowen, Sara Meira Rosenberg, Dylan Suher, Lucas Gonzalez, Julia Mayer, Carolyn Maughan, Samantha Lipman, Nine Novels by Younger Americans

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   It was as if Linda's caress superceded all others in memory-wiping the slate clean of past experiences, charting a brand-new path.

   1998, Gail Link, Texan's Bride

   She was made up, even if it felt real: the part about being memory-wiped, the part about not being from this family, not being what I thought I was.

   2016, Rachel Gold, My Year Zero

   Then, they will be memory-wiped and brought back home just 10 minutes after he was originally taken.

   2023, Ashwin Vinoo, Project Mankind, page 573