unlearn

verb
/ʌnˈləːn/UK/ʌnˈlɝn/US

Etymology

From Middle English unlernen. By surface analysis, un- + learn.

  1. inherited from unlernen

Definitions

  1. To discard the knowledge of.

    • It was another lesson from Fort Hare that I had to unlearn in Johannesburg.
    • It is a language that, once learnt, I have been unable to unlearn.
  2. To break a habit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unlearn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA