What does mess up mean?
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mess up
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess upverb
disturb the smoothness of
"ruffle the surface of the water"
mess, mess upverb
make a mess of or create disorder in
"He messed up his room"
GCIDE
mess upverb
To make a mess of; to confuse, disorder, or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.
mess upverb
To botch; to bungle.
Wiktionary
mess upverb
To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
mess upverb
To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
mess upverb
To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
mess upverb
To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
mess upverb
To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
mess upverb
To damage; injure.
mess upverb
To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
mess upverb
To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
ChatGPT
mess up
To mess up means to make a mistake, handle something incorrectly, or create disorder or chaos. It can also refer to the act of damaging or ruining something.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mess up in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mess up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of mess up in a Sentence
I was hoping that Wilders would get more votes than he got, because these people that mess up this whole country, their eyes would open up, it would be like Trump. These people would pack their bags.
I wouldn’t want to mess up my face.
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.
And if you stay true to that voice that clearly knows what's right and what's wrong, sometimes you're going to mess up, but you can steer back and keep going, i know you're going to do great things.
There has to be a better way in how we are administrating when it comes to the election process, especially now, we are 48 hours after the election and we are in a total cluster mess-up. It's unfortunate that we are in this situation again -- Broward County is the laughingstock of the country.
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