How could communities, […] / Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, / But by degree, stand in authentic place? / Take but degree away, untune that string, / And, hark, what discord follows!
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Untune
Synonyms for "untune" (20 found)
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Translations
14 translations across 14 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- çakordoj verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Bulgarian
1 entries- разстройвам verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Czech
1 entries- rozladit verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Dutch
1 entries- ontstemmen verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Esperanto
1 entries- malagordi verb (to cause to be out of tune)
French
1 entries- désaccorder verb (to cause to be out of tune)
German
1 entries- verstimmen verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Hungarian
1 entries- elhangol verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Italian
1 entries- scordare verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Lithuanian
1 entries- išderinti verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Polish
1 entries- rozstroić verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Portuguese
1 entries- desafinar verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Russian
1 entries- расстроить verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Spanish
1 entries- destemplar verb (to cause to be out of tune)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The Trumpet ſhall be heard on high, / The Dead ſhall live, the Living die, / And Muſick ſhall untune the Sky.
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[…] do we not see in most collections that much time disunites, untunes, blackens, and by degrees destroys even the best preserved pictures.
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1800, Thomas Jefferson, letter dated 4 July, 1800, in Henry S. Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858, Volume 2, Chapter 11, p. 565, Our forte-piano arrived a day or two after you left us. It has been exposed to a great deal of rain, but being well covered was only much untuned.
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