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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



... they going beat you—in suit of white. Old white man to Wilderness Plantation. Parish old man name. Treat his wife bad. Come to house, ain't crack. Come right in suit of white. Drag him out—right to Woodstock there where Mr. Dan get shoot. Put a beating on that white man there till he mess up! Oman never ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various
... 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
... corner, George. Poor old Teddy! Poor old Adam and Eve we are! Ficial Receivers with flaming swords to drive us out of our garden! I'd hoped we'd never have another Trek. Well—anyway, it won't be Crest Hill.... But it's hard on Teddy. He must be in such a mess up there. Poor old chap. I suppose we can't help him. I suppose we'd only worry him. Have some more soup George—while ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... officer indifferently. "Best get her into her house. Don't reckon they want to mess up the hospital with such cattle ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... then floods; and last of all rats. The unusual amount of land water had driven them to new haunts, and Dale's granaries were suddenly invaded. "Oh, William," said Mr. Bates, horror-stricken, "beware of rats. They are the worst foe. One rat will mess up a ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell


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