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How to pronounce ruffle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms affray, disturbance, fray
Type of scrap, fight, combat, fighting
Type Words
Synonyms mix, shuffle
Type of manipulate
Has types riffle, cut, reshuffle
Type Words
Synonyms pleat
Type of turn up, fold, fold up


ruffle the curtain fabric.
Type Words
Synonyms fluff
Type of loosen


the bird ruffled its feathers.
Type Words
Synonyms flounce, frill, furbelow
Type of adornment
Has types jabot, goffer, peplum, gauffer
Type Words
Synonyms cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate
Type of flow, flux
Type Words
Synonyms cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup
Type of walk
Type Words
Synonyms mess up, ruffle up, rumple
Type of disarrange


ruffle the surface of the water.
Type Words
Synonyms choker, neck ruff, ruff
Type of collar, neckband
Has types fraise
Type Words
Synonyms flick, riffle
Type of move, displace
Type Words
Type of fluster


This play is going to ruffle some people.
Type Words
Type of annoy, irritate, get to, get at, vex, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, devil, rile, chafe, bother


ruffle somebody's composure.

Examples of ruffle

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When Gates finally left government, he wrote a bland, ruffle-no-feathers memoir.
From the time.com
I ruffle around in my head trying to think what I may have said to him about her.
From the theatlantic.com
Wear these beauties with jeans, a skinny glittery belt and an organza ruffle top.
From the washingtonpost.com
A large ruffle fanned over the bust in this creation strictly for the statuesque.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
He was not part of aviation's old boys'club and not afraid to ruffle feathers.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Haynesworth was a force, but not enough of one for the Redskins to ruffle Manning.
From the washingtonpost.com
After the flags ruffle in the breeze, the hands will carefully fold the flags.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The waterfall ruffle duvet cover from Urban Outfitters is especially dramatic.
From the sfgate.com
I used the original bodice and then added layer after layer after layer of ruffle.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Frill: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
  • Ripple: stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  • Choker: a high tight collar
  • Trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"
  • Affray: a noisy fight
  • Tittup: to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
  • Discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
  • Flick: twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"
  • Shuffle: mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"