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distunes

distunes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of distune.

Meaning of distune

Verb

distune (third-person singular simple present distunes, present participle distuning, simple past and past participle distuned)

  1. (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 rungea. 1451, John Lydgate, chapter 20, in The Lyf of Our Lady, Westminster: William Caxton, published 1484
    Synonyms:
    detune, untune
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted.
    • 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.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
    Synonyms:
    untune

Questions about distunes

What is distunes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Distunes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of distune.

Words near distunes in the dictionary

  1. distrustless
  2. distrusts
  3. dists.
  4. distune
  5. distuned
  6. distunes
  7. distuning
  8. disturb
  9. disturb the peace
  10. disturb'd
  11. disturbability

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