Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to forget or unlearn something.
- transitive verb To teach the opposite or contrary of (something previously taught).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to forget, disbelieve, or give up what has been taught.
- To make forgotten; make to cease from being acquired by instruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.
- transitive verb To cause to be forgotten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To cause someone to
unlearn ; to make someone forget something they have been taught. - verb transitive To cause something previously learned to be forgotten.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to unlearn
- verb cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
Etymologies
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Examples
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Alas, many of my students have picked up both assumptions and it's very difficult to "unteach" these tiresome habits of argumentation.
"And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers Tenured Radical 2009
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We've taught them to drink chocolate milk, so we can unteach them that, Cooper said.
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We've taught them to drink chocolate milk, so we can unteach them that, Cooper said.
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R.A. Dickey wants to unteach himself the knuckleball.
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On this blog I guess it should be 'who can unteach a dog'.
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As I said before, I am not sure you can teach innovation, but you can unteach it.
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So, if politicized nomination processes unteach the view that courts are different, institutional legitimacy suffers.
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I notice that a lot, especially in that one of the first things I have to do is unteach my students categorical/superficial thinking that the current elementary and secondary education systems indoctrinate.
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Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule:
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Euripus. 93 We do but learn, today, what our better advanced judgments will unteach tomorrow; and
Religio Medici 2007
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