What does unthink mean?
Unthink means (transitive, intransitive) To undo the process of thinking..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, intransitive) To undo the process of thinking..
They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.
But to do so consistently would require a fairly radical revision of the concept. We should have to unthink as far back as Aristotle […]
In An Experiment with an Air-Pump, characters repeatedly assert that "once you've thought something, you can't unthink it, can you?"
"You must learn to edit your thoughts," she said. "Unthink them..."
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Unthink means (transitive, intransitive) To undo the process of thinking..
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They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.
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