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Synonyms for mess up
mess up
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ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-upverb
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 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, mismanageruffle, 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, bodgemess, 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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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#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 |
How to use mess up in a sentence?
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.
We can't lose the entire WH counsels office. I do NOT see January 6 happening the way Mr President is being told, after the 6 th. Mr President should announce will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. Go to Fl and watch Joe Biden mess up daily. Stay engaged. When Joe Biden speaks people will listen.
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.
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.
What happened here will never happen again. For those (who) ... want to mess with us ... we will mess up with them big time.
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