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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.
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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
Tyre Sampson was fun, Tyre Sampson was Tyre Sampson, tyre Sampson helped me when I was in practice, when I would do something wrong, Tyre Sampson'd help me with it and try to fix it and then when I'd mess up Tyre Sampson'd try to encourage me.
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 can’t mess this up and I’m not going to mess this up, 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.
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.
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