Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put out of tune; make incapable of consonance or harmony.
- To disorder; confuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make incapable of
harmony , or of harmonious action; to putout of tune .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to lose one's composure
- verb cause to be out of tune
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, as it turns out, the Ciccone Youth track is by no means the only all-silent untune for sale at the iTMS; faithful viewers ben, Scott Levin, and Michael Wyszomierski contributed their own suggestions, too.
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Nothing but Violence, Invasion or Rebellion can obstruct the River or untune the
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No sight could touch or daunt me, no sound my soul untune;
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William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued) 1162Take but degree away, untune that string,
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QUOTATION: Take but degree away, untune that string,
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But this is nothing to what follows; for, being obligd to make his sense intelligible, we are forcd to untune our own verses, that we may give his meaning to the reader.
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To my ear the untune is agony; to my music, a discord in my day is death to what would have been written that day.
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He did not, as has been said of Horace, wilfully untune his harp when he commenced satirist.
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I cannot think that there is anything to be particularly gained by having the sky untuned; still, if it has got to be untuned at all, I am sure music is the only thing that can untune it.
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Their natural tendency, from the very base of British society, and through all its strongly built gradations, is to look upward: they are not apt to "untune degree."
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