unlearn

Object

• habit: And then we're stuck with the results, for life or until we can learn how to unlearn the habit.
• lesson: And are you not in danger of unlearning the civil liberties lessons of the last 30 years?
• thing: Even if they could accept your arguments, they simply cannot unlearn the things that are so deeply embedded in their minds.
• everything: The next forty years of his life were spent in the desert, unlearning everything he had been taught.
• pattern: It takes time to unlearn the patterns of behavior we have been brought up to accept as the norm.
• behavior: By the sheer grace of our Higher Powers, we have found several ways of unlearning such behavior in the program.

Used with why or when

• what: You often find in the course of chess development that you have to unlearn what you have already learned.

Modifying Another Word

• also: Creole dogs, he concluded, were not only ugly, but they had also unlearned how to bark.
• n't: You ca n't unlearn what you've learned so that knowledge is imprinted into his brain and he'll bring that with him.
• much: It takes a special effort and much unlearning of reactions to see them merely as things.
• well: A Corporate Competence is difficult to learn, but is difficult to unlearn as well.

Preposition: in

• order: It's almost like we have to unlearn in order to rediscover ways of seeing and doing.