How to remove a field completely from a MongoDB document?

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Try this: If your collection was ‘example’

db.example.update({}, {$unset: {words:1}}, false, true);

Refer this:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Updating#Updating-%24unset

UPDATE:

The above link no longer covers ‘$unset’ing. Be sure to add {multi: true} if you want to remove this field from all of the documents in the collection; otherwise, it will only remove it from the first document it finds that matches. See this for updated documentation:

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/update/unset/

Example:

db.example.update({}, {$unset: {words:1}} , {multi: true});

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