untune

IPA: ʌntun

(transitive) To cause (something) to be out of tune; to make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action.

Examples of "untune" in Sentences

QUOTATION: Take but degree away, untune that string,
No sight could touch or daunt me, no sound my soul untune;
Nothing but Violence, Invasion or Rebellion can obstruct the River or untune the
William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued) 1162Take but degree away, untune that string,
He did not, as has been said of Horace, wilfully untune his harp when he commenced satirist.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.