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/dɪʃˈɛvəl/ Listen

verb

Dishevel v. t. (past & past part. disheveled or dishevelled; pres. part. disheveling or dishevelling)

To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; used chiefly in the passive participle. "With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan."

To spread loosely or disorderly. "Like the fair flower disheveled in the wind."

Dishevel v. i. To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dishevel" Quotes from Famous Books

... Herrick Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick To Cynthia on Concealment of her Beauty Francis Kynaston Song, "Ask me no more where Jove bestows" Thomas Carew A Devout Lover Thomas Randolph On a Girdle Edmund Waller Castara William Habington To Amarantha that She would Dishevel her Hair Richard Lovelace Chloe Divine Thomas D'Urfey My Peggy Allan Ramsay Song, "O ruddier than the cherry" John Gay "Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love" George Lyttleton The Fair Thief Charles Wyndham Amoret ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... into disorder &c 59; muss [U.S.]; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon. unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear. turn topsy-turvy &c (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle^, embrangle^, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle^, dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c (fold) 258. litter, scatter; mix &c 41. rearrange &c 148. Adj. deranged &c v.; syncretic, syncretistic^; mussy, messy; flaky; random, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget