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Meaning of UNTEACH

Pronunciation:  un'teech

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [v]  cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
  2. [v]  cause to unlearn; "teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods"
 
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 See Also: instruct, learn, teach, unlearn

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Un*teach"\, v. 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.
 

 

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