Synonyms for mess up
mess up

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1. mess upverb

   Synonyms:
   fuck up, jack up, screw up

2. mess upverb

   Synonyms:
   gum, fuck up, screw up, foul up

3. mess upverb

   Synonyms:
   screw up, fuck up

4. mess upverb

   Synonyms:
   screw up

5. mess upverb

   Synonyms:
   fuck up

6. mess upverb

   To damage; injure.

   He messed up his elbow at the track meet.

   Synonyms:
   fuck up, screw up, jack up

7. mess upverb

   To manhandle; beat up; rough up.

   Her brother's friends messed him up a little after he cheated on her.

   Synonyms:
   fuck up

8. mess upverb

   Synonyms:
   fuck up, gum

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1. ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-upverb

   something badly botched or muddled

   Synonyms:
   ballup, mess-up, cockup, balls-up

2. 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, mismanage

3. ruffle, 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, bodge

4. mess, 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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1. Shaheen Holloway:

   I can’t mess this up and I’m not going to mess this up, when you are home, it’s too important. It’s a difference. It’s a big difference, like you put more time, more effort, more sweat, more tears. This is everything to get an opportunity to coach at my alma mater. I’m not going to mess up this opportunity.

2. Perry Brass:

   War was invented was to allow men who never grew up to do the things they always wanted to do as kids: mess up their rooms, wear funny clothes, sleep in a room with a lot of strangers, dirty up other people’s houses and then take their toys away.

3. Billy Joel:

   It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

4. Pearl Barrett:

   [It] doesn’t have to be a mess up.

5. Ben Baldanza:

   Airlines mess up, and air travelers get frustrated, the feedback we received makes it clear no airline is immune from upsetting their customers, and at Spirit, we can do a better job of explaining how flying with us is different.