What is another word for mess up?
Synonyms for mess up
mess up
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ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-upverb
something badly botched or muddled
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 upverb
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"
Synonyms:
vitiate, stammer, mud, plunder, impair, drift, pamper, hot up, flub, suck, featherbed, mar, gasconade, squander, ruffle up, boast, heat up, vaunt, itch, screw up, ball up, mire, frustrate, corrupt, bluster, gas, deflower, spoil, muck up, rape, tease, grope, violate, bollocks, mollycoddle, bungle, bollocks up, fumble, muck, shove along, shove off, foil, stutter, blow, bollix, rumple, coddle, cosset, shoot a line, scotch, go bad, ruffle, baby, cross, louse up, fellate, float, botch up, bodge, brag, bobble, baffle, muff, be adrift, fluff, mess, mishandle, tout, foul up, swash, blunder, indulge, despoil, waste, go down on, stumble, blow out, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, bumble, falter, cocker, burn out, misconduct, mismanageruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess upverb
disturb the smoothness of
"ruffle the surface of the water"
Synonyms:
botch, prance, flick, screw up, shuffle, bungle, tittup, muck up, mishandle, bumble, botch up, ruffle up, blow, ripple, flub, cock, rumple, sashay, fumble, knit, ball up, ruffle, bollocks, strut, pleat, riffle, cockle, crease, louse up, bollocks up, wrinkle, bollix, crumple, pucker, muff, swagger, undulate, foul up, mix, mess, fluff, bobble, crinkle, bollix up, spoil, bodgemess, mess upverb
make a mess of or create disorder in
"He messed up his room"
Synonyms:
ruffle up, spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, rumple, bollix, foul up, bodge, flub, mess, fumble, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, louse up, blow, bollix up, botch, ruffle, muck up, bumble, bollocks up, muff
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#669 | baby | |
#772 | mar | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1119 | gas | |
#1605 | rape | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2152 | cock | |
#2456 | mix | |
#2540 | blow | |
#3373 | suck | |
#6803 | float | |
#8009 | mess | |
#9024 | mud | |
#9932 | knit | |
#10768 | gum | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11779 | drift | |
#11969 | corrupt | |
#12304 | shuffle | |
#12746 | violate | |
#15297 | misconduct | |
#16465 | flick | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17420 | tease | |
#17634 | tout | |
#20390 | wrinkle | |
#20396 | indulge | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#22492 | muck | |
#22870 | strut | |
#23203 | boast | |
#23676 | ripple | |
#24734 | stumble | |
#25560 | impair | |
#26507 | itch | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#27618 | cocker | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29367 | crease | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#31815 | pamper | |
#33879 | brag | |
#33911 | muff | |
#34901 | ruffle | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#37254 | plunder | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#45358 | blunder | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#53567 | mire | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#56544 | falter | |
#56855 | pleat | |
#57008 | swash | |
#61267 | stutter | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#64843 | swagger | |
#65224 | crinkle | |
#70369 | riffle | |
#70458 | pucker | |
#76139 | grope | |
#80961 | squander | |
#87911 | cockle | |
#88167 | bluster | |
#99054 | featherbed | |
#104177 | botch | |
#106648 | stammer | |
#109264 | gasconade | |
#111189 | prance | |
#116185 | crumple | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#121624 | vitiate | |
#162842 | coddle | |
#198456 | sashay | |
#204476 | undulate | |
#214393 | rumple | |
#220019 | flub | |
#228192 | despoil | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#281038 | vaunt | |
#284974 | deflower | |
#309165 | mismanage | |
#315643 | mishandle |
How to use mess up in a sentence?
So I walk into this with open arms saying, ‘I am ready for this opportunity.’ Not, ‘Oh, my God, what will happen if I mess up?’.
Only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could mess up this foreign policy that badly.
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
If she was going to mess up, it was going to be over there. So she started stitching it from the top right and kept going down, knowing that it would get easier as she went.
I was hoping that Wilders would get more votes than he got, because these people that mess up this whole country, their eyes would open up, it would be like Trump. These people would pack their bags.
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