1. making something, especially hair, messy or disheveled by handling it roughly
Usage: present participle of ‘tousle’

1. the act of making something messy or disheveled
Usage: gerund form

Examples

• She was tousling her brother’s hair playfully.
• The wind kept tousling his carefully styled hair.
• Stop tousling the papers on my desk!
• The constant tousling of her hair made it look wild.
• He enjoyed tousling the dog’s fur during playtime.
• The tousling of the bedsheets showed someone had been sleeping there.
• After tousling through the old books, she finally found what she needed.