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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

... unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear. turn topsy-turvy &c. (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle[obs3], embrangle[obs3], tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle[obs3], dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c. (fold) 258. litter, scatter; mix &c. 41. rearrange &c. 148. Adj. deranged &c. v.; syncretic, syncretistic[obs3]; mussy, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... spirits, brother Ananda, in the sky, but of worldly mind, who dishevel their hair and weep, and stretch forth their arms and weep, fall prostrate on the ground, and roll to and fro in anguish at the thought: 'Too soon has the Blessed One died! Too soon has the Happy One passed away! Too soon has the Light ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various