distune

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distune

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From dis- + tune.

verb distunes · distuning · distuned

transitive To put (something) out of tune. […] the clapper of his distuned belle May cankre soone I mene his false tonge Be doumbe for euer & neuer efte to be runge
Similar: detune, untune
figuratively, transitive To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted. 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 L
Similar: untune

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@misc{distune_2026,
  title = {distune},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/distune},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}