unlearning
present participle ofunlearn
unlearn
verb[T]
uk/ʌnˈlɜːn/us/ʌnˈlɝːn/to make anefforttoforgetyourusualway of doing something so that you canlearna new and sometimesbetterway:
I had to unlearn the way Iplayedguitarwhen Istartedtakingformallessons.
Forgetting and forgetfulness
- absent-minded
- absent-mindedly
- absent-mindedness
- amnesia
- amnesiac
- anterograde
- bury
- erase
- fall/slip through the cracksidiom
- featherbrained
- forget
- forget itidiom
- forgetful
- oblivion
- putsomethingbehindyouidiom
- radar
- remove
- retrograde
- retrograde amnesia
- rusty
Examplesofunlearning
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
If one interlocutor can rapidly change another's internal weights, people would be subject to "catastrophicunlearning" of language.
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The process of 'unlearning' deepens the impression that not only survival techniques but also existential orientation, which we learned in childhood, are no longer reliable.
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The book's concluding chapter attempts, only partially successfully, to address "learning andunlearningto be democratic" (p. 128).
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When the learner's grammar is wider than the target grammar,unlearningovergeneralizations becomes less obvious.
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However, their resistance tounlearningand ease of relearning were comparable to those of normal children.
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Learning how to write isunlearninghow to produce multimodal, visual meaning representations.
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Unlearninghas a stabilizing effect in collective memories.
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Finally, the findings of this study suggest that transfer may manifest itself in the difficulty or ease involved in theunlearningof overgeneralizations.
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I apologise for intruding for the first time in this debate an element, if not of totalunlearning, at least of very small learning.
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The first year is often spent inunlearning, educationally, what they have heard in their own homes.
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They areunlearningall that they had learned in 1950.
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We flicker towards those rumours with all theunlearningcompulsion of moths going towards flames.
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Unwanted values need to be discarded in a process calledunlearning.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Students who learned that show your shoes was spelled shoe ywr shooz had someunlearningto do.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He suggested that provisory tents could easily replace ossified palaces, that undecision can raise exploration,unlearningand re-learning.
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- overcrowded city
- overcrowded classrooms
- overcrowded condition
- overcrowding
- overdecorate
- overdecoration
- overdemanding
- over-dependence
- over-dependence
- over-dependent
- over-dependent
- overdeveloped
- over dinner
- overdirect
- overdiscount
- overdo
- overdocument
- overdone
- overdose
- overdosed
- overdosing
- overdraft
- overdramatic
- overdramatize
- overdraw