learn sth by rote SLIGHTLY DISAPPROVING
to learn something in order to be able to repeat it from memory, rather than in order to understand it:
She learned the equations by rote.

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learn by rote
learn or memorize something without thinking about it
The children learned the material by rote but they didn't really understand it.

We learned many verbs by rote in the foreign language class.

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learn something by rote
learn or memorize something without thinking about it
The children learned the material by rote but they didn't really understand it.

We learned many verbs by rote in the foreign language class.

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learn by rote
v. phr. To blindly memorize what was taught without thinking about it.
If you learn a subject by rote, it will be difficult to say anything original about it.

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