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Noun mess-up has 1 sense
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled--1 is a kind of mistake, error, fault
 
 
Verb mess-up has 3 senses
botch, 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 up - 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"--1 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
 Sample sentences:
 Somebody ----s
 Somebody ----s something
 
ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up - disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"--2 is one way to disarrange
 Sample sentences:
 Somebody ----s something
 Something ----s something
 
mess, mess up - make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"--3 is one way to disorder, disarray
 Sample sentences:
 Somebody ----s something
 Something ----s something
 
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