unlearn
[uhn-lurn]
- to forget or lose knowledge of.
- to discard or put aside certain knowledge as being false or binding: to unlearn preconceptions.
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- to lose or discard knowledge.
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Origin of unlearn
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Contemporary Examples
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
About how your character and judgments were formed and how you came to unlearn that first and not always painful formation?
Two friends try to unlearn bad-relationship habits by dating each other, exclusively, for 40 days.
So if PhDs want to be writers, they often have to unlearn what they've learned.
Getting the Chinese government to unlearn that lesson won't be easy.
Historical Examples
Even to him the best grammar is the shortest and that in which he will have least to unlearn.
CratylusPlato
Tour lesson will be an easy one—you have nothing to unlearn.
Maurice Tiernay Soldier of FortuneCharles James Lever
And it is harder to unlearn an old lesson than to learn a new.
The people of a country do not unlearn in a day the long lessons of the past.
The Civilization Of ChinaHerbert A. Giles
And he was quicker than his educated countrymen, for he had nothing to unlearn.
A Short History of EnglandG. K. Chesterton
unlearn
- to try to forget (something learnt) or to discard (accumulated knowledge)
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