verb
- Disturb the smoothness of.
- usage: "ruffle the surface of the water"
- To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.
- usage: "She puckered her lips"
- Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.
- usage: "This fabric won't wrinkle"
adjective
- In disarray; extremely disorderly."her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly- Al Spiers
- synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, tousled
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