Unteach
[,ʌn'ti:tʃ]
Definition
(verb.) cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier.
(verb.) cause to unlearn; 'teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods'.
Inputed by Jane--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.
(v. t.) To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.
Editor: Melinda
Definition
v.t. to cause to forget as what has been taught.—adj. Unteach′able not teachable.—n. Unteach′ableness.
Checker: Otis
Examples
- I was an untaught shepherd-boy, when Adrian deigned to confer on me his friendship. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What an unsophisticated, untaught thing! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I, one day, he continued, determined to try what effect I could produce on an untaught servant-maid. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Ah, how is it possible for the untaught heart to keep its faith, unswerving, in the face of dire misrule, and palpable, unrebuked injustice? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Though Lucy was untaught, her mother's conversation and manners gave her a taste for refinements superior to her present situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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