VERB
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make a mess of or create disorder in
He messed up his room -
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out -
disturb the smoothness of
ruffle the surface of the water
How To Use mess up In A Sentence
- Mom's going to go nuts if you don't clean this mess up.
- They abuse my kindness, abuse my phones, misfile, can't type, mess up my computers, complain constantly, and never complete assignments, so I end up doing their work.
- Hmmm, I did not mess up the line spacing between the dialogues, but if it makes it hard to read, I will fix it.
- If you cancel now you'll mess up all my arrangements.
- If you must smoke then smoke at home, mess up your own house, keep your own rubbish and leave the rest of us smoke free.
- Yet she will soon forget herself and mess up if she has not done so already.
- In contrast a few weeks ago I had a silly mess up, where British Gas invoiced me for a CO2 detector.
- If you cancel now you'll mess up all my arrangements.
- You'd better not mess up my room or I'll beat the bejabbers outta you!
- He got another chance and didn't want to mess up again.