Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make disharmonious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of harmony; render inharmonious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To cause
disorder . - verb transitive To make the cause of
disorder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to sound harsh and unpleasant
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Examples
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There are belles, pretty French belles, with just a tint of deceitless rouge for fashion's sake, and tinkling, crisp, low French voices modulated to chime with the music and not disharmonize it; nay, rather add to the sweetness of its concord.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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All help us, then, to higher states; those who tranquilize us, and those who disharmonize us till we fain would withdraw to our soul's innermost for peace.
Dawn Harriet A. Adams
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"I presume that those who disharmonize us, aid us to higher states, for they force us out in search of something better.
Dawn Harriet A. Adams
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