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tunes out

vb. (en-third-person singulartune out)

Usage examples of "tunes out".

Given the complexity of our mental processes, the recipient tunes Out, blocks, forgets, or misinterprets eighty percent of what's been said.

Instead, he tunes out the meeting, opens up his laptop, and begins to hack.

If the man in the mirror had given him a magic ring that allowed him to turn into a cat, or had given him a two-headed toad that spoke English out of one head and French out of the other, and sang Britney Spears tunes out of its butt, that would have been proof.

Soon out of the depth of that stout old mandolin, in which so many human sorrows had spun tunes out of themselves, as the spiders spin misty grey webs, till it was all haunted with music, soon the old cry went up to the stars again, a thread of supplication spun of the matter which else were distilled in tears, beseeching it knew not what.

He murmured old childish tunes out of the Shire, and snatches of Mr.

And the things he listens very keenly to, and the things he tunes out, for example most of his mother's talk about what they'll do at the Academy.