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tuned out

vb. (en-pasttune out)

Usage examples of "tuned out".

He tuned out, remaining motionless for half an hour while he planned the details of his action, preprogramming as much as he could.

This took a while, and he sat absolutely still and straight, in the manner of a robot who had tuned out, not snoozing in the human manner.

The shared image had finally distracted her enough so that she had tuned out her fatigue.

I was tuned out at the time, of course, but it interested me when I learned of it later.

So he had tuned out immediately, rather than get involved and risk the kind of put-down that would inevitably come.

I was aware that other orders were being given - orders not addressed to me, automatically tuned out by my trained reflexes.

Minor let Stams batter at him, unheeded, as he frantically searched for a way to stop Minc, stealing a half hour here and there when Minc was tuned out to run down his own ideas.

The walls were a pale, scabrous green and there was but one aging glowglobe so defective it could not be tuned out of the yellow.