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Unlearn vs Unteach - What's the difference?

unlearn | unteach |

In transitive terms the difference between unlearn and unteach

is that unlearn is to discard the knowledge of while unteach is to cause something previously learned to be forgotten.

unlearn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To discard the knowledge of.
  • *1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 80:
  • *:It was another lesson from Fort Hare that I had to unlearn in Johannesburg.

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    unteach

    English

    Verb

  • To cause someone to unlearn; to make someone forget something they have been taught.
  • To cause something previously learned to be forgotten.