to unlearn
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6.4
- verb
- /ʌnˈlɜrn/
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desaprender
- To improve her skills as a musician, she needed to unlearn some of the bad techniques she had picked up over the years.
- unlearning racism
She says right after this, I'm trying to unlearn these lessons.
- She says right after this, I'm trying to unlearn these lessons.
- It's been more of a process of unlearning than learning.
- And so now we're having to unlearn that loud voice.
- Because again, a lot of this is you have to unlearn old bad behavior.
- And so I had to unlearn poverty mentality.
- When it comes to things about sex, we unlearn everything.
- As white people, we have a lot to learn and unlearn, so do check your blind spots.
- So again, I had to learn how to unlearn those type of behaviors.
- I believe that real growth often comes from unlearning.
- They say that the biggest challenge today is not simply to learn, but to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Examples
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You must unlearn what you have learned.
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I had to question all my assumptions, unlearn so much of what I had learned.
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But it's really not practical and you have to unlearn all these things.
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It's just going to be very difficult for me to unlearn years of speaking to people.
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We're gonna unlearn whatever he taught you.
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Because again, a lot of this is you have to unlearn old bad behavior.
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I don't know how quickly we can unlearn it, but we'll try.
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Teachers must, in turn, correct these, and students must then methodically unlearn them before anything new can be attempted.
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I think we have to go through a huge major process of unlearning before we can relearn.
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We need to rethink the issue of race and unlearn some of our convictions regarding the matter.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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1.8
Decide not to think about something
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8.4
Make someone stop a learned habit or belief
Make a person or animal stop a learned habit
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Morphology
Etymology
The word unlearn is made from the prefix un- ('not' or 'reverse') and the familiar word learn. So to unlearn something is to 'undo' or 'let go of' a skill, habit, or belief you learned before.