distune

vt. [古语]使…走调, 使变调, 使无调

词形变化

distuned distunes 三单 distunes distuning distuning 现在分词 distuned 过去式 distuned 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To put (something) out of tune.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted.

    比喻 及物

    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!

词源

From dis- + tune.

来源:wiktionary