unlearn
verb (used with object)
to forget or lose knowledge of.
has unlearned
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present perfectof unlearn (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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There are many valuable things that every man knows until he has unlearned them in a university.
From The Key to Success by Russell H. Conwell
Living so long in the East, he has unlearned the laws, the manners, and the usages of his country.
From The Nabob by W. Blaydes
Walking and talking he has unlearned, and is in a fair way to dance up into the air.”
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
He who has learned to die has unlearned to serve.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
