mindwipe

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verb

To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves a viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.

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Meanings

verbmindwipe (third-person singular simple present mindwipes, present participle mindwiping, simple past and past participle mindwiped)

present singular third person mindwipes · participle present mindwiping · participle past mindwiped · past mindwiped

  1. transitiveliteratureTo erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves a viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.

    In Adventures of Superman #636, Superman told Wonder Woman and Batman about how the League had mindwiped Dr. Light...

    2006, Jeffery Klaehn, Inside the World of Comic Books
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    Whether they were mindwiped upon their return to base, or simply terminated like useless equipment, Deutsch never knew.

    2001, Jeffrey A Carver, James A Carver, Eternity's End

    Synonyms: brainwipe, erase, deprogram

nounmindwipe (plural mindwipes)

plural mindwipes

  1. literatureThe act of mindwiping.

    The mindwipe of Magneto is a necessary action and it is also a wrong one, but it appears to be the only way to save the human population from extinction.

    2009, Andrew Terjesen, “Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: The Ethics of Mind Reading and Mindwriting”, in X-Men and Philosophy

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves a viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.

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brainwipeerasedeprogram

Origin

From mind + wipe.

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APA

mindwipe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mindwipe

MLA

“mindwipe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mindwipe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mindwipe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mindwipe.

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