Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to untune
Participle: untuned
Gerund: untuning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | untune |
| you | untune |
| he;she;it | untunes |
| we | untune |
| you | untune |
| they | untune |
Perfect
| I | have untuned |
| you | have untuned |
| he;she;it | has untuned |
| we | have untuned |
| you | have untuned |
| they | have untuned |
Past
| I | untuned |
| you | untuned |
| he;she;it | untuned |
| we | untuned |
| you | untuned |
| they | untuned |
Pluperfect
| I | had untuned |
| you | had untuned |
| he;she;it | had untuned |
| we | had untuned |
| you | had untuned |
| they | had untuned |
Future
| I | will untune |
| you | will untune |
| he;she;it | will untune |
| we | will untune |
| you | will untune |
| they | will untune |
Future Perfect
| I | will have untuned |
| you | will have untuned |
| he;she;it | will have untuned |
| we | will have untuned |
| you | will have untuned |
| they | will have untuned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | untune |
| you | untune |
| he;she;it | untune |
| we | untune |
| you | untune |
| they | untune |
Perfect
| I | have untuned |
| you | have untuned |
| he;she;it | have untuned |
| we | have untuned |
| you | have untuned |
| they | have untuned |
Imperfect
| I | untuned |
| you | untuned |
| he;she;it | untuned |
| we | untuned |
| you | untuned |
| they | untuned |
Pluperfect
| I | had untuned |
| you | had untuned |
| he;she;it | had untuned |
| we | had untuned |
| you | had untuned |
| they | had untuned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would untune |
| you | would untune |
| he;she;it | would untune |
| we | would untune |
| you | would untune |
| they | would untune |
Perfect
| I | would have untuned |
| you | would have untuned |
| he;she;it | would have untuned |
| we | would have untuned |
| you | would have untuned |
| they | would have untuned |
Imperative
| you | untune |
| we | Let's untune |
| you | untune |
Verbs conjugated like 'untune'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'untune'
entune,
intune,
attune,
detune,
intone,
petune,
retune,
tune,
unbone,
unbung,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + tune.
Sample Sentences
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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! [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
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The Trumpet ſhall be heard on high, / The Dead ſhall live, the Living die, / And Muſick ſhall untune the Sky. [(please specify the title), John Dryden, “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687. […]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
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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. [1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, London, Chapter 14, p. 119, footnote:]
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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,
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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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The events of the last two or three years, with their record of discontent and rioting among colonial peoples, even more, perhaps, the series of official reports inquiring into the causes of these events, have untuned that old rhapsody in red, white and blue, to which our imperialists delighted to listen, and in whose magic melodies they thought they heard the beat of progress towards social liberty and welfare. [1940, Leonard Barnes, “The Uprising of Indian and Colonial Peoples”, in Where Stands Democracy?, London: Macmillan, page 63:]