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toruffled

toruffled is the simple past and past participle of toruffle.

Meaning of toruffle

Verb

toruffle (third-person singular simple present toruffles, present participle toruffling, simple past and past participle toruffled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To ruffle excessively, to the degree of causing something to lose its proper form or shape; ruffle up.
    • She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings / That in the various bustle of resort / Were all toruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...

Questions about toruffled

What is toruffled the simple past and past participle of?
Toruffled is the simple past and past participle of toruffle.

Words near toruffled in the dictionary

  1. torturous
  2. torturously
  3. tortury
  4. torty
  5. toruffle
  6. toruffled
  7. torula
  8. torulaceous
  9. torulae
  10. torulaform
  11. torularhodin

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