disheveling

variants or dishevelling
present participle of dishevel

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disheveling
Verb
  • The president's latest threats are disrupting, at least briefly, what had been a sustained rally in tech, built on hundreds of billions of dollars in planned spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.
    Ari Levy,Jordan Novet, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Book-Carrie initially blames Lo for disrupting her and Richard’s plan, and willingly holds her hostage at Richard’s behest.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This ensures smooth energy transfer without disturbing the lake’s ecosystem.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
  • His landscapes are muddy and void, prone to sudden invasion by disturbing strangers, including the giant whale carcass that arrives on a train at the beginning of his 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Disheveling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disheveling. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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