unharmonize

English

Alternative forms

• unharmonise

Etymology

un- +‎ harmony +‎ -ize

Verb

unharmonize (third-person singular simple present unharmonizes, present participle unharmonizing, simple past and past participle unharmonized)

1. To disturb the harmony of
   • 1797, Mrs. Anna Maria Bennett, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors: In Seven Volumes:

     In the exhilarating hope of reaching London on a scale of expence so suitable to her scanty means, and under some sort of protection, it was not in the power of Sir Jacob nor his companion entirely to unharmonize her mind.

   • 1826, Discourses on a Future Existence, etc, page 14:

     Disease waits for us in a thousand shapes, ever ready to seize and unharmonize our frail frames, and rob us of the little ease we might otherwise enjoy.

   • 1994, Donald G. Nieman, Black Southerners and the Law, 1865-1900, page 90:

     Threats of a new party are made and fears entertained by some that it will unharmonize the Democratic party.