unteach
verb
Forms unteaches unteaching untaught
- verb (transitive) To cause (someone) to unlearn; to make (someone) forget something they have been taught, or recognize it as erroneous, etc.
- verb (transitive) To cause (something previously learned) to be forgotten, or recognized as an error, etc.
Etymology
From un- + teach.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.
- verb To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.
Etymology [1st pref. un- + teach.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “unteach”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details