unsoothe

verb

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.”

   “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?”