toruffle

toruffle
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 toruffld, and sometimes impaird — John Milton, Comus.


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