attune
verb (used with object)
to bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship; adjust.
had attuned
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past perfectof attune.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Close association of the motherless boy with the older man since boyhood had attuned their minds.
From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge
He was content to be an imitator of Alcaeus and Sappho, who had attuned to the lyre their own hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows of their own chequered life.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Angeli's words and mine had attuned her to that disposition.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
And often, as the shadows fell, And twilight had attuned them well, She sang of many a noble deed, And marked with joy their eager heed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
Time had attuned Lady Maulevrier's mind to the gospel of Schopenhauer and the Pessimists, and she was contented to see the mystery of life as they had seen it.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
