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  • verb Present participle of dishevel.

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Examples

  • Now, 22 hours before, this floor was where actors and directors and writers, each out-disheveling the next, were walking around with catheters and tutus and apples and three-foot high cutouts.

    24 Hour Plays: Time for Drinks - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Now, 22 hours before, this floor was where actors and directors and writers, each out-disheveling the next, were walking around with catheters and tutus and apples and three-foot high cutouts.

    24 Hour Plays: Time for Drinks - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Never mind the disheveling and the pain -- the jaws of the wounded are hanging open in disbelief now.

    Navigating Through the Invisibility of the Stricken 2008

  • I hope my mental disheveling wasn't too uncomfortable on Steve while he visited campus.

    waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2006

  • Eden shouldered her out of the way and bent to dig through the mess for a change of clothes, further disheveling the contents.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • Eden shouldered her out of the way and bent to dig through the mess for a change of clothes, further disheveling the contents.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • Eden shouldered her out of the way and bent to dig through the mess for a change of clothes, further disheveling the contents.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • Eden shouldered her out of the way and bent to dig through the mess for a change of clothes, further disheveling the contents.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • A sorrow came that swept through the land as huge storms sweep through the forest and field, rolling thunder along the sky, disheveling the flowers, daunting every singer in thicket or forest, and pouring blackness and darkness across the land and up the mountains.

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • We come, shoe-strings dragging, skirts impeding, wind disheveling, holding on to inappropriate head-gear, feathers awry, victims of old-time convictions, unadapted to modern conditions, amateur marchers, poorly uniformed -- but here we come -- just count us -- here we come!

    The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

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