tune out
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (AU): (file)
Verb
tune out (third-person singular simple present tunes out, present participle tuning out, simple past and past participle tuned out)
- (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out.
- I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.
- 2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 123:
- Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.
- To change the channel or frequency away from.
- I was tired of talk radio so I tuned out of that station and tuned into one playing all music.
Synonyms
- (ignore): space out, zone out; see also Thesaurus:ignore
Hypernyms
Translations
zone out — see zone out
change the channel
See also
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