unharmonize

present singular third person unharmonizes · participle present unharmonizing · participle past unharmonized · past unharmonized · alternative unharmonise

1. To disturb the harmony of

   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

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   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

   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