unlearn

🇺🇸 /ˌʌnˈlɜːrn/ 🇬🇧 /ˌʌnˈlɜːn/
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verb
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To actively forget or stop using something you've learned, often because it's not helpful or is incorrect.

To improve his guitar skills, he had to unlearn some old techniques.

translation

v. To actively forget or stop using something you've learned, often because it's not helpful or is incorrect.

Word Forms

3rd Present unlearns
Past unlearned
Perfect unlearned
Progressive unlearning