ruffle

ruffle is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

[2] To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

[3] To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. I. Taylor. She smoothed the ruffled seas. Dryden.

[4] To erect in a ruff, as feathers. [the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. Tennyson.

[5] To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

[6] To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. Tennyson.

[7] To throw into disorder or confusion. Where best He might the ruffled foe infest. Hudibras.

[8] To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.] I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. Chapman To ruffle the feathers of, to exite the resentment of; to irritate.