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unlearn
[uhn-lurn]
verb (used with object)
to forget or lose knowledge of.
to discard or put aside certain knowledge as being false or binding.
to unlearn preconceptions.
verb (used without object)
to lose or discard knowledge.
unlearn
/ ʌˈɜː /
verb
to try to forget (something learnt) or to discard (accumulated knowledge)
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
He does his own unlearning of anthropocentrism on the page through his intense experiences with these three rivers, concluding only when the rivers are done with him: “I am rivered.”
Our fear of the old boys' club must be unlearned.
Hawken’s book is a lesson in what’s sometimes called “unlearning,” or letting go of old assumptions, like the idea that nature is something to fix or control.
I had to unlearn the muscle memory of taking people to a poignant place and then relieving that tension with a punch line.
Ross invites us to unlearn the complacent strictures of cinema he never bothered to absorb.
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