dishevelling

Variant of dishevel

transitive verb disheveled or dishevelled, disheveling or dishevelling

  1. to cause (hair, clothing, etc.) to become disarranged and untidy, as by pulling or loosening, etc.; tousle or rumple
  2. to cause the hair or clothes of (a person) to become thus disarranged

Origin: back-form. < disheveled

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