Synonym: agitate, annoy, crease, disturb, excite, fluster, fold, furrow, irk, perturb, provoke, rattle, rile, shake, trouble, upset, vex, wrinkle. Similar words: scuffle, muffled, baffle, baffled, afflict, guff, afflatus, effluent. Meaning: ['rʌfl] n. 1. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim 2. a high tight collar 3. a noisy fight. v. 1. stir up (water) so as to form ripples 2. trouble or vex 3. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others 4. discompose 5. twitch or flutter 6. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement 7. erect or fluff up 8. disturb the smoothness of 9. pleat or gather into a ruffle.
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1. Don't ruffle my hair, I've just combed it.
2. Her blouse has a ruffle of lace around the neck.
3. Nothing ever seems to ruffle Susan.
4. Its body plumage suddenly began to ruffle and swell.
5. Nothing could ruffle his composure.
6. Nothing can ruffle her gentle disposition.
7. You shouldn't ruffle so easily.
8. She knows how to ruffle his feathers.
9. His direct, often abrasive approach will doubtless ruffle a few feathers.
10. I don't want to ruffle my hair.
11. The ruffle of her nightgown followed her in a mad wake.
12. The neck was low and a narrow double ruffle decorated the neckline.
13. Can you seriously expect, for example, to ruffle a colleague's hair and not be patted on the backside in return?
14. An adjustment of her tight neck ruffle, and Natalie continues, looking me straight in the eye with a stern glare.
15. I had seen her ruffle his hair as though he were a little boy.
16. To make into a ruffle frill.
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17. To decorate with a ruffle or flounce.
18. Dr Sosis and Dr Ruffle picked the common-pool-resource dilemma because the communal lives of kibbutz members mean they often face similar dilemmas over things such as communal food, power and cars.
19. Carman Kass looked girlie in a black ruffle chiffon dress.
20. They called him a nerd, and it really ruffle his feathers.
21. The seamstress bound the hem of the dress with a ruffle.
22. Tame birds, when approached, will stretch out their necks and ruffle their neck feathering.
23. I could tell that my refusal to allow him to ruffle me infuriated him.
24. Can you name any other dance organization in which a male dancer substitutes for a female without raising a ruffle?
25. On the mainland, the small beaches were faintly visible, the surf like a tiny ruffle of white lace.
26. Yet he was well aware that tampering with the traditional approach to Swan Lake would ruffle a few feathers.
27. In Israel, job hunters have the option of including a headshot with their resumes, whereas that is customary in many European countries but taboo in the United States, Ruffle said.
28. To pleat or gather ( fabric ) into a ruffle.
29. He had none of that depressing fanaticism of the newly arrived Peiping students who were inclined to ruffle up their feathers at the slightest criticism of conditions in the Liberated Areas.
30. This apparent improvement was but momentary -- it was a false calm, which the least breeze could ruffle.