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men•ti•cide
(men′tə sīd′),USA pronunciation n.
- Sociologythe 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.
- Latin ment- (stem of mēns) mind + -i- + -cide
- 1950–55