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muck up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb muck up has 2 senses
- muck up(v = verb.social) 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, muff, screw up, spoil - 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" is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
- muck up(v = verb.contact) mire, muck, mud - soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" is one way to begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil
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THESAURUS
muck up
ball up, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, bloomer, blooper, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, bugger, bugger up, complicate, confound, confuse, cook, dirt, dirty, dirty up, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, dumb trick, dust, embrangle, entangle, fluff, fool mistake, foozle, foul up, foul-up, fumble, garble, goof, grime, gum up, hash up, howler, implicate, involve, jumble, knot, louse up, louse-up, mess up, mire, mix up, muck, muddle, muddy, perplex, pi, play hell with, play hob with, pratfall, pull a boner, queer, ramify, ravel, riffle, scramble, screamer, screw up, screw-up, shuffle, sink, slime, smoke, snafu, snarl, snarl up, soot, tangle, tumble
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