dishevel

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dishevel (third-person singular simple present dishevels, present participle disheveling or dishevelling, simple past and past participle disheveled or dishevelled)

(transitive) To throw into disorder; upheave.
(transitive) To disarrange or loosen (hair, clothing, etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto I, stanza 12:
  With garments rent, and haire discheueled, / Wringing her hands, and making piteous mone;
- 1785, William Cowper, The Garden
  Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind.
(intransitive) To spread out in disorder.

throw into disorder

disarrange or loosen