unteach

• Verbe désignant l'action de faire oublier ou abandonner à quelqu'un des connaissances, croyances ou habitudes précédemment acquises, ou de défaire un apprentissage antérieur.

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

1. Cause to disbelieveC2formal

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

   Faire perdre une croyance

   • The professor tried to unteach the students the outdated theories they had learned.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.

   Synonymesdisabusedisillusion

   Antonymesinculcateindoctrinateteach

2. Cause to unlearnC2formal

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

   désapprendre

   • 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.

   Antonymescoacheducateinstructschoolteachtraintutor