What's the difference between dishevel and upheave?

Dishevel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.
  • (v. t.) To spread loosely or disorderly.
  • (v. i.) To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
  • (2) TSD rats had not shown similarly low Tb until just prior to death, but had shown signs of severe pathology, including severely debilitated appearance, disheveled fur, and severe lesions on their tails and on the plantar surfaces of their paws.
  • (3) The 56-year-old president, looking dishevelled but calm, said he had been expelled by "rightwing oligarchs" and promised to return to Honduras.
  • (4) l(1)dishevelled (l(1)dsh) is a late zygotic lethal mutation that exhibits a rescuable maternal effect lethal phenotype.
  • (5) WR 2721 produced lethargy, unsteady gait, and dishevelment but these signs all resolved completely within 1-3 days in survivors.
  • (6) With Mark Noble to the fore, Arsenal suddenly looked dishevelled and it was no exaggeration to say they were hanging on.
  • (7) Even so, it must have been alarming for Wenger to see how dishevelled they were in the first half, when Calum Chambers was a danger to his own team.
  • (8) The arty kind, the kind that comes with handsome, dishevelled hair and record deals, and brief stints in the legendary McLean Hospital.
  • (9) In walks a rather dishevelled looking Lil Wayne, who seems to be in a huff about an autograph hunter who was waiting in the lobby.
  • (10) Arsenal’s dishevelled look was not helped when Lukas Podolski, about to come on as a late substitute, realised he did not have any shin pads and had to borrow Özil’s.
  • (11) President Alassane Ouattara took power in April, with the help of French and UN forces, after a dishevelled Gbagbo was plucked from his bunker .
  • (12) All that can be said for certain is that they were dishevelled enough to make it a genuine debate.
  • (13) Seconds later, the dishevelled couple leave the booth and drop their ballots in a box, as the ad's slogan is displayed on the screen: "Let's do it together".
  • (14) He is angry, dishevelled and making no attempt to soften his message for the tiny handful of TV cameras that have shown up.
  • (15) Milan had dominated possession at the San Siro but it was Diego Simeone’s side that left an away goal to the good, thanks to a wonderful, late header from dishevelled’s Diego Costa.
  • (16) Let’s just be brutally honest about that stereotype: an eccentric bohemian hippy, unkempt beard, John Lennon-style glasses, wading through muesli in dishevelled sandals.
  • (17) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
  • (18) For Everton, dishevelled and despondent by the end, what was most galling was that they had almost beaten themselves.
  • (19) Inside, a man wearing a dishevelled beige suit stops whatever it is he has been doing and asks if he can help.
  • (20) United, once again, wore a dishevelled look and it was bordering on desperation when the substitute Adnan Januzaj was booked for another dive.

Upheave


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
  • (2) It is clearly painful for her to keep talking about Larsson's death, and the ugliness and upheaval that has come since.
  • (3) During previous upheavals in relations, such as over the Syrian crisis, conversations have taken place between diplomats.
  • (4) Every now and again a leader would promise to reform the system, but it survived, even after upheavals as great as that represented by the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
  • (5) In its half-yearly health check, the Washington-based fund said the global economy remained fragile and stressed that high unemployment posed risks of social upheaval.
  • (6) Continuous expert nursing care must be provided to ensure that the patient survives life-threatening events and to facilitate optimal adaptation of the patient and family during this enormous emotional upheaval of their lives.
  • (7) What these constitutional amendments add up to is a cross-party agreement that the comprehensive health service will continue, a solid foundation for the health service after the upheavals and uncertainties of recent years.
  • (8) He said: "While GPs and other clinicians support the concept of clinically led commissioning, they do not believe that this expensive upheaval of the health service is needed to achieve that.
  • (9) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
  • (10) Less than a week after the fall of Mubarak, the professor received a phone call from the head of Egypt's national archives asking him to oversee a unique new project that would document the country's dramatic political and social upheaval this year and make it available for generations of Egyptians to come.
  • (11) He was 28), but it predicted – and I’m sorry to mention this – that “the relationship will have initial problems, and later, when in his early forties, a pattern of emotional upheaval emerges.
  • (12) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
  • (13) Terry adds that these hostile black recruits were "veterans of the civil rights movement or the urban upheavals, the riots in the streets.
  • (14) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
  • (15) This independent assessment also puts paid to Ed Miliband’s myth that the reforms were about privatisation, and highlights why both the public and the health sector should be wary of Labour’s plans for upheaval and reorganisation”, he added.
  • (16) Julie Bishop remains deputy Liberal leader and a ministerial shakeup looms after the leadership upheaval.
  • (17) Scientists confidently predict that the worst upheaval we humans face at the end of this, and indeed any other calendar, is the need to get a new calendar.
  • (18) Excuse me,” the hardliner says, “do you have a course handout?” Iranians often make jokes to digest political upheaval, and Trump’s rise to power has drawn comparisons with that of a leader closer to home – one whose eight years in office marked a deterioration in Iran-US relations.
  • (19) Scott Morrison has said he was “offended” and “disappointed” that his friend the broadcaster Ray Hadley pressed him to swear an oath on the Bible to prove he was telling the truth about his actions in the Liberal leadership upheaval.
  • (20) And they reflect a broader exhaustion: after two referendums and two national elections within 18 months, Scottish voters have minimal appetite for further upheaval.

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