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unsoothe

verb

Etymology

From un- + soothe.

  1. derived from *h₁es-✻ — “to be”
  2. inherited from *sanþōną✻ — “to prove, certify, acknowledge, testify”
  3. inherited from *sanþōn✻
  4. inherited from sōþian — “to verify, prove, confirm, bear witness to”
  5. inherited from sothen — “to verify, prove the validity of”
  6. prefixed as unsoothe — “un + soothe”

Definitions

  1. To disturb

    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.
    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA