tune out
English
Etymology
From tune + out.
Verb
tune out (third-person singular simple present tunes out, present participle tuning out, simple past and past participle tuned out)
- (idiomatic) To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out.
- I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.
- 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): zone out
- space out
Hypernyms
- tune
Translations
zone out — see zone out
change the channel
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See also
- tune in