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Webster 1913 Edition


Unteach

Un-teach′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
teach
.]
1.
To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.
Experience will
unteach
us.
Sir T. Browne.
One breast laid open were a school
Which would
unteach
mankind the lust to shine or rule.
Byron.
2.
To cause to be forgotten;
as, to
unteach
what has been learned
.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unteach

UNTE'ACH

,
Verb.
T.
pret. and pp. untaught. To cause to forget or lose what has been taught.
Experience will unteach us.

Definition 2024


unteach

unteach

English

Verb

unteach (third-person singular simple present unteaches, present participle unteaching, simple past and past participle untaught)

  1. (transitive) To cause someone to unlearn; to make someone forget something they have been taught.
  2. (transitive) To cause something previously learned to be forgotten.