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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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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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How to use mess up in a sentence?

  1. Lindsay Schwartz:

    If I mess up my diet on Tuesday or Wednesday, I know I can get back on track the following Monday.

  2. Daniel Cameron:

    I’m most concerned about that one out of three who remains ill, for some, it can last up to 10 years and when you’re at school, it can mess up your ability to concentrate in the classroom or participate in sports or have a life with friends.

  3. Masahiko Ishino:

    It's not cheap, for sure, but for Fujifilm, it's still better than a complete collapse of the deal, which could mess up Xerox in a major way. Fujifilm shouldn't waste this opportunity.

  4. Chris Christie:

    Only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could mess up this foreign policy that badly.

  5. Tyler Redden:

    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.


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