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
In preparing for the audition, Spacek claims to have deliberately arrived to read for the role all disheveled.
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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
Hair disheveled, a dazed and bewildered look in his eyes, the coach trudged into his own dressing room to regroup and get a rundown of a growing list of injuries.
—Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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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
Hair disheveled, a dazed and bewildered look in his eyes, the coach trudged into his own dressing room to regroup and get a rundown of a growing list of injuries.
—Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dishevel
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Both sides say the strike will disrupt hospital operations.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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The United States on June 25 launched a new satellite expected to significantly improve forecasts of solar flares and coronal mass ejections — huge plasma bubbles that can crash into Earth, disrupting power grids and communications.—
Sasirekha Subramanian,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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He was also disturbed by the 2016 murder of Labour parliamentarian Jo Cox by a far-right figure associated with neo-Nazi groups who had been radicalized online.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
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But then Detective Nathanial Saint shows up carrying disturbing news and an even more unexpected jolt of creativity.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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The sheer bulk of the suit might confuse the human eye from a distance, but in large open spaces, like snowfields, anything that looks a little odd will stand out.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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Many people confuse the center with Crossroads Church or Crossroad Health Center, Pelicano said.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Jan. 2026
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The downstairs staffs of the richest and noblest families start to shuffle around so chaotically that even Lady Whistledown takes notice of in her column.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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The videos showed Chicago kissing and hugging a sable-furred puppy in the family's living room while Psalm shuffled around on his hands and knees trying to chase one of the dark-haired dogs around the room.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 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 1 Feb. 2026.
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