unteach

• 动词，指使人忘记或放弃已学到的知识、观念或习惯。

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.

   使人改变信念

   • The professor tried to unteach the students the outdated theories they had learned.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

   同义词disabusedisillusion

   反义词inculcateindoctrinateteach

2. Cause to unlearnC2formal

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

   使忘却

   • 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.

   反义词coacheducateinstructschoolteachtraintutor