untuned

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It is the wound in the affections which untunes the jarring senses of 'this child-changed father.'

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

Here still she dwells, and here her votaries stroll; But disappointed hope untunes the soul: Restraints unfelt whilst hours of rapture flow, When troubles press, to chains and barriers grow.

From The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem by Bloomfield, Robert

Such luxury untunes the mind for doing and suffering.

From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

As she untunes the lute by "pinching" the strings over-excitedly with her right, her other hand retunes it by turning the pegs.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir