mess up

Definition of Mess Up in English :

Verb

1. 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, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Example Sentences:
'I botched the dinner and we had to eat out'
'the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement'

2. mess up, ruffle, ruffle up, rumple

disturb the smoothness of

Example Sentences:
'ruffle the surface of the water'

3. mess, mess up

make a mess of or create disorder in

Example Sentences:
'He messed up his room'

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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mess Up

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noun

informal

something muddled; something that has gone wrong

a technical mess-up

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n.

1.

a. A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition: The kitchen was a mess.

b. Something that is disorderly or dirty, as a accumulation or heap: Who left the mess on the kitchen floor?

2.

a. A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition or situation: With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.

b. One that is in such a condition: They made a mess of their marriage. Her boyfriend is a real mess.

3.

a. An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish: cooked up a mess of fish.

b. A serving of soft, semiliquid food: a mess of porridge.

4.

a. A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.

b. Food or a meal served to such a group: took mess with the enlistees.

c. A mess hall.

v. messed, mess·ing, mess·es

v.tr.

To make disorderly or dirty: The wind has messed your hair. The puppy messed the floor.

v.intr.

1. To cause or make a mess.

2. To intrude; interfere: messing in the neighbors' affairs.

3. To take a meal in a military mess.

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