UNTEACH (untaught)

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Irregular inflected form: untaught   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unteach mean? 

• UNTEACH (verb)
  The verb UNTEACH has 2 senses:

1. cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier

2. cause to unlearn

  Familiarity information: UNTEACH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTEACH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "unteach" is one way to...):

instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to unlearn

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods

Hypernyms (to "unteach" is one way to...):

instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

Cause:

unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fanny soon learnt how unnecessary had been her fears of a removal; and her spontaneous, untaught felicity on the discovery, conveyed some consolation to Edmund for his disappointment in what he had expected to be so essentially serviceable to her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)