What are some alternative words for mess up?
Synonyms for mess up
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Princeton's WordNet
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up(verb)
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 up(verb)
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 up(verb)
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 up(verb)
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
Wiktionary
Words popularity by usage frequency
| rank | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #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 |
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