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dishevel

[ dih-shev-uhl ]

verb (used with object)

disheveled, disheveling or (especially British) dishevelled, dishevelling.
  1. to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
  2. to cause untidiness and disarray in:

    The wind disheveled the papers on the desk.



dishevel

/ ɪˈʃɛə /

verb

  1. to disarrange (the hair or clothes) of (someone)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 徱ˈ𱹱Գ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • 徱·ı·Գ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dishevel1

First recorded in 1590–1600; back formation from disheveled
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dishevel1

C15: back formation from dishevelled
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A disheveled woman then emerges from the side of the building, meets Frankie’s stare and moves off into the night.

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Moments later, a frantic housekeeper rifles through the kitchen drawers, then returns to raise a heavy marble rolling pin over the disheveled and bloodied figure, who is by all appearances pleading for her life.

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We learn that this disheveled gangster has bona fide empathy.

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With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.

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Buddy was seen at the Kings game looking rather disheveled, with what appeared to be an unlit cigarette in his mouth and drinking what appeared to be a beer.

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