unsoothe

present singular third person unsoothes · participle present unsoothing · participle past unsoothed · past unsoothed

1. transitiveTo disturb; to unsettle; to arouse or irritate from a calm state.

   Take out your ire on the unneighborly generators of noises that unsoothe the nerves.

   1952, Gayelord Hauser, Be Happier, Be Healthier, page 142

   2 more examples

   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.

   2006, Roger Scruton, News from Somewhere: On Settling, →ISBN, page 138

   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?

   2012, Sandra Hill, Santa Viking, →ISBN