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Unteach

verb
(past & past part. untaught; pres. part. unteaching)
1.
Cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier.
2.
Cause to unlearn.





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"Unteach" Quotes from Famous Books



... tears are vain, That Death nor heeds nor hears distress: Will this unteach us to complain? Or make one mourner weep the less? And thou,—who tell'st me to forget, Thy looks are ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
... social life, by taking away from him the very appearance of moral discipline; by regulating from morning till night the smallest details of his day, all his movements and all his thoughts? Is not this to place him outside the conditions of existence, and to unteach him that liberty for which we pretend he is being prepared?... Assuredly, let us not forget that prisons contain incorrigible and corrupt recidivists, the residuum of large towns who must undoubtedly ...
— Crime and Its Causes • William Douglas Morrison


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