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unsoothe en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + soothe.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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