Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Unteach   Listen
verb
Unteach  v. t.  (past & past part. untaught; pres. part. unteaching)  
1.
To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught. "Experience will unteach us." "One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule."
2.
To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Unteach" Quotes from Famous Books



... planet, having a mission to undo the work of his lifetime in the flesh, it should begin the task in London. It was at the Hall of Science that Charles Bradlaugh achieved his greatest triumphs as a public teacher, and it is there that he should first attempt to undo his work, to unteach his teaching, to disabuse the minds of his dupes. Of course we shall be told that he must communicate through "mediums," and that the medium must be "controlled" by Charles Bradlaugh's spirit; but ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote
... 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
... fum me, sir. Oh, my Lawd, sir, that's one of the worst parts of it! I don't dare teach him mine, much less unteach him his mother's. She's as spirited as ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... devoted men was to redeem the natives from no mere speculative unbelief, but from superstitions the most sanguinary and licentious. Even those who were careless as to the great truths which the Polynesians had to learn, must feel, upon reflection, that merely to unteach the brutal and defiling lesson of ages of darkness was to confer a priceless blessing. Every prejudice should surely be in favour of the men who have by general confession accomplished the first and apparently most ...
— The Cruise of the Mary Rose - Here and There in the Pacific • William H. G. Kingston
... 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


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com