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Mess up   /mɛs əp/   Listen
Mess up

verb
1.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
2.
Disturb the smoothness of.  Synonyms: ruffle, ruffle up, rumple.
3.
Make a mess of or create disorder in.  Synonym: mess.






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"Mess up" Quotes from Famous Books



... in his low, easy way. "I'm with you, Mr. Lee. We'll make a thorough job while we're at it and mess up these other tracks. After that we'll follow the ditch up and see ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine



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