Meaning of unsoothe | Babel Free

Definitions

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

transitive

Examples

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

“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.”

“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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