DISHEVEL (dishevelled, dishevelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: dishevelled    , dishevelling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dishevel mean? 

• DISHEVEL (verb)
  The verb DISHEVEL has 1 sense:

1. disarrange or rumple; dishevel

  Familiarity information: DISHEVEL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISHEVEL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dishevel    ... he / she / it dishevels   
Past simple: disheveled    / dishevelled   
Past participle: disheveled    / dishevelled   
-ing form: disheveling    / dishevelling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disarrange or rumple; dishevel

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

dishevel; tangle; tousle

Context example:

The strong wind tousled my hair

Hypernyms (to "dishevel" is one way to...):

disarrange (destroy the arrangement or order of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Binding of WNT to Frizzled causes disheveled (DSH) to inhibit Glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK-3b) activity.

(Notch and Wnt Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

There, indeed, was a woman with dishevelled hair, holding her hands over her heart as one distressed with running.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Other pathways regulate this pathway also, such as the modulation of PI3 kinase activity by ceramide and the inhibition of Gsk3-beta activity by the Wnt/frizzled/disheveled (DSH) pathway.

(Beta-Catenin Accumulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

"What in the world are you doing here?" she asked, regarding her disheveled sister with well-bred surprise.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For a few minutes, while you smooth your hair—which is somewhat dishevelled; and bathe your face—which looks feverish?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When at last he succeeded in rolling clear of her, he crawled to his feet, badly dishevelled, hurt both in body and in spirit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As it opened there came a tumultuous rush into the hall, rapid feet clattered up the stair, and an instant later a wild-eyed and frantic young man, pale, disheveled, and palpitating, burst into the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In a state between sleeping and waking, you noticed her entrance and her actions; but feverish, almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from her own: the long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination; results of nightmare: the spiteful tearing of the veil was real: and it is like her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yes, I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked, answered Mrs. March with a sigh and a smile, as she smoothed and fastened up Jo's disheveled hair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)