28 August 2017

dishevel

[dih-shev-uh l]

verb (used with object), disheveled, disheveling or (especially British) dishevelled, dishevelling.

1. to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
2. to cause untidiness and disarray in:
The wind disheveled the papers on the desk.

Origin of dishevel

1590-1600 First recorded in 1590-1600; back formation from disheveled
Related forms

dishevelment, noun

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Examples from the Web for dishevel

Historical Examples

I never can get them there girls of mine to dishevel themselves in time.
Manners, Vol 1 of 3
Frances Brooke

I find it clear and very clarifying, after the innumerable hours I have spent in trying to dishevel him.
The Letters of William James, Vol. II
William James

Rich chaplets these were, that the winds might not dishevel their comely hair, and this is true i’ faith.
The Nibelungenlied
Unknown

Anagram

I shelved
shed evil
she devil
she lived
hid elves

Today’s quote

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

On this day

28 August 1837 – Worcestershire Sauce manufactured by John Lea and William Perrins.

28 August 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr gives his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech to 250,000 civil rights activists in Washington DC, in which he called for an end to racism.