unsoothe

English

Etymology

un- + soothe

Verb

unsoothe (third-person singular simple present unsoothes, present participle unsoothing, simple past and past participle unsoothed)

  1. (transitive) To disturb; to unsettle; to arouse or irritate from a calm state.
    • 1952, Gayelord Hauser, Be Happier, Be Healthier, page 142:
      Take out your ire on the unneighborly generators of noises that unsoothe the nerves.
    • 2006, Roger Scruton, News from Somewhere: On Settling, →ISBN, page 138:
      Now it is overlooked by instructions, thrown out with the visual equivalent of a sergeant-major's bark, designed not to harmonize but to be dissonant, to abolish tranquillity, and to unsoothe and unsettle the soul.
    • 2012, Sandra Hill, Santa Viking, →ISBN:
      And don't you just love the image of a tall mountain of a man using his big hands to soothe a child . . . or unsoothe a woman?

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