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v. - Disarrange or rumple.

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Usage examples (27)
  • Verb (used with object), : The wind disheveled the papers on the desk
  • September 3rd, 2003 kerfuffle: from dishevel, ruffle.
  • Rich chaplets (1) these were, that the winds might not dishevel their comely hair, and this is true i 'faith.
  • All the way along the valley people were threading, strangely insignificant, among the grey dishevel of stone and rock, like insects.
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