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tune out

tune out verb: to stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out.

Verb

tune out (third-person singular simple present tunes out, present participle tuning out, simple past and past participle tuned out)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out.
    • I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.
    • Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 123
    Synonyms:
    space out, zone out
  2. To change the channel or frequency away from.
    • I was tired of talk radio so I tuned out of that station and tuned into one playing all music.

tune out meaning in Bengali

tune out in Bengali

মনোযোগ দেওয়া বন্ধ করা, উপেক্ষা করা, মনোযোগ হারিয়ে ফেলা, চ্যানেল, কম্পাঙ্ক পরিবর্তন করা

Synonyms of tune out

Forms of tune out

third-person singular presenttunes out
present participletuning out
past participletuned out
pasttuned out

Origin of tune out

From tune + out.

Questions about tune out

What does tune out mean?
Tune out means to stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out.
What is tune out in Bengali?
Tune out in Bengali is মনোযোগ দেওয়া বন্ধ করা, উপেক্ষা করা, মনোযোগ হারিয়ে ফেলা. See Tune out meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tune out?
Tune out is a verb.
What is the past tense of tune out?
The past tense of tune out is tuned out.

Words near tune out in the dictionary

  1. Tundup
  2. tune
  3. tune down
  4. tune in
  5. tune in, turn on, drop out
  6. tune out
  7. tune the old cow died of
  8. tune up
  9. tune-up
  10. tune-ups
  11. tuneability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tune out (page history and authors); tune out (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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