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mess up in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
    "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    botch  bodge  bumble  fumble  botch up  muff  blow  flub  screw up  ball up  spoil  muck up  bungle  fluff  bollix  bollix up  bollocks  bollocks up  bobble  mishandle  louse up  foul up  mess up  fuck up 
  2. make a mess of or create disorder in
    "He messed up his room"
    mess  mess up 
  3. disturb the smoothness of
    "ruffle the surface of the water"
    ruffle  ruffle up  rumple  mess up 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


mess up in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy or soil.
  2. (verb) (transitive) To introduce an error to or cause a problem with.
  3. (verb) To make a mistake; "often construed with" on.
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