verb
- to cause someone to forget or abandon something that has been learned or believed
Usage: formal; relatively uncommon
Examples
- It’s difficult to unteach bad habits once they become ingrained.
- The professor tried to unteach the students’ misconceptions about history.
- Years of therapy helped her unteach herself the negative thought patterns.
- The new coach had to unteach the team’s poor fundamentals before building proper technique.
- Parents sometimes struggle to unteach children behaviors they learned from peers.
- The workshop aimed to unteach outdated business practices.