Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense unlearns, present participle unlearning, past tense, past participle unlearnedregional note: in BRIT, also use unlearnt
verb
If you unlearn something that you have learned, you try to forget it or ignore it, often because it is wrong or it is having a bad influence on you.
They learn new roles and unlearn old ones. [VERB noun]
Before you know it, you will have unlearned the debt habit. [VERB noun]
unlearn in British English
(ʌnˈlɜːn)
verbWord forms: -learns, -learning, -learned (-ˈlɜːnd) or -learnt
to try to forget (something learnt) or to discard (accumulated knowledge)
unlearn in American English
(ʌnˈlɜrn)
verb transitive, verb intransitive
to forget or try to forget (something learned); get rid of (a habit)
Word origin
ME unlernen: see un- & learn
Examples of 'unlearn' in a sentence
unlearn
`You can't unlearn what you know from being in love,' she lamented, `and that's why you see things differently.
James Birrell THE MANANA MAN (2002)
They had no middle-class fear of weapons, no panic at the sight of a gun to unlearn.