MEANING
To attempt to undo deeply conditioned or coercively instilled beliefs and habits.
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Words that belong together
- deprogram a recruit
- attempt to deprogram
On the page
The attempt to deprogram the recruit became another form of coercion.
She questioned who had decided he needed to be deprogrammed.
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Word forms
- Base
- deprogram
- Past tense
- deprogrammed
- Past participle
- deprogrammed
- Present participle
- deprogramming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deprogram
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deprogramming
- Present perfect
- have/has deprogrammed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deprogramming
- Past
- deprogrammed
- Past continuous
- was/were deprogramming
- Past perfect
- had deprogrammed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deprogramming
- Future
- will deprogram
- Future continuous
- will be deprogramming
- Future perfect
- will have deprogrammed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deprogramming
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: deprogram; deprograms; deprogrammed; deprogrammed; deprogramming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: deprograms.
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