unteach
(verb) cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
unteach
(verb) cause to unlearn; “teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
unteach (third-person singular simple present unteaches, present participle unteaching, simple past and past participle untaught)
(transitive) To cause someone to unlearn; to make someone forget something they have been taught.
(transitive) To cause something previously learned to be forgotten.
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Source: Wiktionary
Un*teach", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + teach.]
1. To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught. Experience will unteach us. Sir T. Browne. One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. Byron.
2. To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
