as in to disrupt
to undo the proper order or arrangement of
decorations for the garden wedding that had been disheveled by the wind
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Recent Examples of dishevel
Jet fuel flowed into the cabin, filling the space as Carleton, frazzled and disheveled, crawled toward the exit, tossing luggage that had fallen out of the upside-down overhead compartments out of the way to clear a path for his fellow passengers.
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
In preparing for the audition, Spacek claims to have deliberately arrived to read for the role all disheveled.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Police shared a mug shot of Catledge alongside the post, in which he could be seen in a gray shirt and appeared to be disheveled.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
She is brought to the ground as her clothing becomes disheveled during the struggle.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
In preparing for the audition, Spacek claims to have deliberately arrived to read for the role all disheveled.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Police shared a mug shot of Catledge alongside the post, in which he could be seen in a gray shirt and appeared to be disheveled.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
She is brought to the ground as her clothing becomes disheveled during the struggle.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dishevel
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The Houthis have previously attacked commercial ships in the Red Sea to disrupt the flow of oil, gas and other commodities through the Bab el-Mandeb strait.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Gas prices have surged past $4 per gallon for the first time in more than three years on Tuesday, according to data from GasBuddy, as the war in Iran continues to disrupt global oil supplies.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Leo moon disturbs unconscious patterns that are ready to be interrupted.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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Bees are typically not aggressive but can become defensive if their hive is disturbed, especially during yard work or landscaping, city officials said.—
Rey Covarrubias Jr,
AZCentral.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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As if that wasn’t confusing enough, not all Christians agree on what day of the calendar that specific Sunday is.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2026
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This was not to be confused with the Ulster Volunteer Force or the Ulster Defence Association, both terrorist organizations that vehemently favored the link with Britain.—
Colm Tóibín,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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After the offense was shut out on four hits in Tuesday night’s 2-0 loss to the Angels, Counsell shuffled the lineup.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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Instead, Meyerson was shuffled to three different ALFs in six months — from Hialeah to Kendall to Homestead.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
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“Dishevel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishevel. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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