unlearned; unlearning; unlearns
1
: to put out of one's knowledge or memory
2
: to undo the effect of : discard the habit of
Examples of unlearn in a Sentence
It is hard to unlearn bad habits.
let's hope that over the summer I don't unlearn everything I learned over the course of this past year
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For Baldwin’s characters, that specifically involved needing to unlearn and let go of society’s shame in order to love.
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june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
But part of healing is unlearning the belief that your pain needs to be legible to others to be valid.
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Unlike Libya's program, which relied on the infamous A.Q. Khan network to obtain nuclear technology, Iran's program developed indigenously, using Iranian scientists and technical know-how that cannot be unlearned.
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The team’s final step was to verify that the dopamine circuit between the VTA and the amygdala causes fears to be learned and unlearned.
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Dylin Hardcastle
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
But part of healing is unlearning the belief that your pain needs to be legible to others to be valid.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
Unlike Libya's program, which relied on the infamous A.Q. Khan network to obtain nuclear technology, Iran's program developed indigenously, using Iranian scientists and technical know-how that cannot be unlearned.
—Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
The team’s final step was to verify that the dopamine circuit between the VTA and the amygdala causes fears to be learned and unlearned.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Unlearn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unlearn. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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unlearn
verb
un·learn
ˌən-ˈlərn 
: to put out of one's knowledge or memory
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