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tune out

vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To fail to pay attention to; to ignore; to zone out. 2 To change the channel or frequency away from.

Usage examples of "tune out".

He locked his eyes on her face, trying to tune out the peripheral vision.

She had to force herself to listen and not just tune out the noisy thing.

So Liriel said a silent prayer and did her best to tune out the strident, ranting voice of the mistress.

She'd watched as Rune begged to play with traveling minstrels' instruments-and had begun to coax something like music out of them right away-she'd seen Rune trying to get a good tune out of a reed whistle, a blade of grass, and anything else that made a noise.

It was one of his skills, this ability to tune out every other thought and zero in on the deal of the moment.

He'd been sitting near the low fire all along, watching her while he eased a quiet tune out of a concertina.

But I you cannot get a tune out of the old fiddle hanging on the wall beside the birds because all its strings are broken.

Lawrence Garrand, and tried to tune out his ears to the verbal assaults dictated by Florissa's sexual insecurity, he made a decision.