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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



... Thomas talk dat biggity talk to me, not to my wife. Maybe you kin whip her, but if you can't whip me too, don't bring de mess up. ...
— De Turkey and De Law - A Comedy in Three Acts • Zora Neale Hurston

... 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 ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine

... said Hilary, whose civic morality flew much lower than this. "Nonsense! And stir the whole filthy mess up in the courts? I mean, make use of this fellow to find him, and enable us to find out just how much money he has left, and how much we have got to supply, in order to make ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells



Words linked to "Mess up" :   fail, mess-up, miscarry, disarrange, disorder, go wrong, disarray



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