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[ uhn-lurn ] / ʌnˈlɜrn /
verb (used with object)to forget or lose knowledge of. to discard or put aside certain knowledge as being false or binding: to unlearn preconceptions. verb (used without object)to lose or discard knowledge. Origin of unlearnFirst recorded in 1400–50, unlearn is from the late Middle English word unlernen.See un-2, learn Words nearby unlearnunlawful assembly, unlax, unlay, unlead, unleaded, unlearn, unlearned, unlearnt, unleash, unleavened, unless Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unlearnOur sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. The Radical History of Mother’s Day|Matthew Paul Turner|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST About how your character and judgments were formed and how you came to unlearn that first and not always painful formation? Marco Roth’s Book Bag: The Anti-Memoir Memoir|Marco Roth|October 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST Two friends try to unlearn bad-relationship habits by dating each other, exclusively, for 40 days. Are the 40 Days Duo Really a Couple?|Abby Haglage|September 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST So if PhDs want to be writers, they often have to unlearn what they've learned. What's the Use of a PhD?|Megan McArdle|February 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Getting the Chinese government to unlearn that lesson won't be easy. Obama's China Policy Breakthrough|Joshua Kurlantzick|April 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST She has nothing to unlearn, and will pick up tone and ease fast enough.' Heartsease|Charlotte M. Yonge She says: "How much those of us who have been formed by the European mind have to unlearn and lay aside, if we would act here!" Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)|Julia Ward Howe We must unlearn our purely human history, and learn a history of interaction between nature and man instead. Science in Arcady|Grant Allen Our good painter has yet several things to learn, and to unlearn. The Life of John Sterling|Thomas Carlyle Look at her now: Who would ever guess she had lived to learn much, to unlearn more, in so brief a term of married life? Linda Lee, Incorporated|Louis Joseph Vance
British Dictionary definitions for unlearn
verb -learns, -learning, -learned (-ˈlɜːnd) or -learntto try to forget (something learnt) or to discard (accumulated knowledge) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |