verb
- to cause someone to forget or abandon something previously learned or believed
Usage: third person singular present tense of ‘unteach’
Examples
- The new evidence unteaches everything we thought we knew about the case.
- Good therapy sometimes unteaches harmful patterns of thinking.
- The coach unteaches bad habits before introducing proper technique.
- This experience unteaches me to trust strangers so easily.
- The documentary unteaches common misconceptions about the historical event.
- She unteaches her students’ previous errors in grammar.