verb
Meaning 1
To put (something) out of tune.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: detune, untune
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
distune
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verb
Meaning 2
To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Examples
- 1654, Thomas Jackson, A Treatise of the Primaeval Estate of the First Man, Section 2, Chapter 13, in An Exact Collection of the Works of Doctor Jackson, London: Timothy Garthwait, p. 3037, But by eating of the forbidden fruit, and losse of Paradise, his very substance was corrupted and deprived of Life Spiritual: and all his Powers or Faculties not only corrupted, but distuned.
- 1802, Charles Lamb, John Woodvil, Act IV, in The Works of Charles Lamb, London: C. and J. Ollier, 1818, Volume 1, p. 146, O most distuned, and distempered world, where sons talk their aged fathers into their graves!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: untune
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From dis- + tune.