Definition of unteach in English:
unteach
verbuntaughtʌnˈtiːtʃˌənˈtēCH
[with object]1Cause (someone) to forget something learned previously.
I'll have a problem unteaching them but you don't know anything so you have nothing to unlearn
Example sentencesExamples
- By watching snakes, Polyidus goes on to divine a way to bring the boy back to life, teaches him his mantic art, and then, as he is leaving Crete, unteaches him by getting him to spit into his mouth.
- I would have to have untaught myself to have learned what I have learned.
- He untaught her all that her mother tried to teach.
- 1.1 Remove (something previously known or taught) from a person's mind.
once the idea takes hold, it's impossible to unteach it
Example sentencesExamples
- The claim is that in use, The Putting Arc will quickly teach correct body movements, while at the same time ‘unteaching’ ingrained bad ones.
- The unexpected failure to find WMD, coupled with exaggerated but real post-war difficulties, have caused enough erosion of public domestic support for our efforts to ‘unteach’ the lessons of our victory.
- If Christ had been incarnated as a woman, these lessons would have been untaught.
- ‘Much effort will be given to unteaching that which is not true,’ he wrote acerbically.
- When folly is once taught, it is very difficult to unteach it.