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unteach

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7 lettersPart of speech verbSorted acehntuStarts with UEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier

Word origin

From un- + teach.

Used in a sentence

  • It is difficult enough, when a pupil has been taught wrong in books, to unteach him and to set his mind going upon some reasonable plan; but to undertake to teach those who, though they have been to school, […]
  • "I did say that the mass was the Romish name for the sacrament." Upon which the rector "beat his head like a man distracted;" and declared that he should into the school and unteach that also.
  • The great difficulty, and surely no small honour, is, or would be, to unlearn it: in the case of this as of so many other fallacies, by teaching it, the humble endeavour here is to unteach it.

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