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Mess up   Listen
verb
mess up  v. t.  
1.
To make a mess (5) of; to confuse, disorder, or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.
2.
To botch (3); to bungle.





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"Mess up" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Mess up" :   mess, fluff, bollocks up, spoil, muck up, disarrange, bumble, muff, miscarry, mess-up, ruffle up, foul up, bollix up, ruffle, botch, bodge, botch up, fail, screw up, bollocks, rumple, disarray, flub, go wrong, disorder, louse up, ball up, fumble, blow, mishandle, fuck up, bungle, bollix, bobble


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