Definition of "dishevel"

dishevel

/dɪ(s)ˈʃɛvl̩/

verb
third-person singular simple present dishevels, present participle disheveling or dishevelling, simple past and past participle disheveled or dishevelled
1. (transitive) To throw into disorder; upheave.
2. (transitive) To disarrange or loosen (hair, clothing, etc.).
  Quotations
  With garments rent, and haire discheueled, / Wringing her hands, and making piteous mone;
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 12
  Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind.
  1785, William Cowper, The Garden
  [...] the natural finish seems much less likely to show up the stains of travel which might soon dishevel the golden ochre or dark blue—especially the latter—[...].
  1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 262
3. (intransitive) To spread out in disorder.