- frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow - a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
--1 is a kind of adornment
--1 has particulars: goffer, gauffer; jabot; peplumDerived form: verb ruffle9 - choker, ruff, ruffle, neck ruff - a high tight collar
--2 is a kind of collar, neckband
--2 has particulars: fraise - affray, disturbance, fray, ruffle - a noisy fight
--3 is a kind of fight, fighting, combat, scrap
- ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate - stir up (water) so as to form ripples
--1 is one way to flow, flux
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- ruffle - trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"
--2 is one way to annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to ruffle Sue
- swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
--3 is one way to walk
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Somebody ----s PP
- ruffle - discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
--4 is one way to fluster
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- flick, ruffle, riffle - twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"
--5 is one way to move, displace
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Somebody ----s something
- shuffle, ruffle, mix - mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"
--6 is one way to manipulate
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- ruffle, fluff - erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"
--7 is one way to loosen
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- ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up - disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
--8 is one way to disarrange
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- ruffle, pleat - pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"
--9 is one way to fold, fold up, turn up
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun ruffle1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"