unteach

A verb used to indicate the act of causing someone to forget or discard previously learned knowledge, beliefs, or habits.

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1. Cause to disbelieve C2 formal

   To teach someone the contrary of what they had learned earlier, causing them to reject a previous belief.

   • The professor tried to unteach the students the outdated theories they had learned.
   • It is difficult to unteach deeply ingrained prejudices.
   • The new evidence helped unteach the false narrative that had been accepted for years.

   🌐تصحيح الاعتقاد

   المرادفات: disabusedisillusion

   الأضداد: inculcateindoctrinateteach

2. Cause to unlearn C2 formal

   To make someone forget or abandon a previously learned skill, habit, or piece of knowledge.

   • The coach had to unteach the player's bad technique before teaching the correct one.
   • Therapy can help unteach harmful behavioral patterns.
   • It took months to unteach the incorrect grammar rules he had picked up.

   🌐تعليم النسخ

   الأضداد: coacheducateinstructschoolteachtraintutor

• untaught past participle
• untaught past simple
• unteaching present participle
• unteaches third person singular