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unharmonize en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + harmony + -ize.

Meanings

1. To disturb the harmony of
   • 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. 1797, Mrs. Anna Maria Bennett, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors: In Seven Volumes:
   • Threats of a new party are made and fears entertained by some that it will unharmonize the Democratic party. 1994, Donald G. Nieman, Black Southerners and the Law, 1865-1900, page 90:
   • 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. 1826, Discourses on a Future Existence, etc, page 14:

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