memory-wipe

English

Verb

memory-wipe (third-person singular simple present memory-wipes, present participle memory-wiping, simple past and past participle memory-wiped)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) To erase memories, or specific memories, from the mind of (a person or being).
    • 1998, Gail Link, Texan's Bride:
      It was as if Linda's caress superceded all others in memory-wiping the slate clean of past experiences, charting a brand-new path.
    • 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:
      I've asked my father to memory-wipe the other kids, so that they won't remember today.
    • 2016, Rachel Gold, My Year Zero:
      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.
    • 2023, Ashwin Vinoo, Project Mankind, page 573:
      Then, they will be memory-wiped and brought back home just 10 minutes after he was originally taken.
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