mess up

(transitive)To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.

The afternoon breeze messed up my hair.

(transitive)To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.

The change messed something up, and it's not working anymore.

(transitive)To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.

Well, I messed up my solo, but otherwise it was a good concert.

(intransitive)To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.

He has a hard time getting started because he's afraid he'll mess up.

She messed up on her final exam.

(transitive)To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.

Stop bumping me! You keep messing me up!

(transitive)To damage; injure.

He messed up his elbow at the track meet.

(slang, transitive)To manhandle; beat up; rough up.

Her brother's friends messed him up a little after he cheated on her.

(slang, transitive)To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

That girl totally messed me up, man. I'm not sure who I am anymore.

(informal)A mistake or fiasco; something that has gone wrong.

Đồng nghĩa: muck-up, aberration, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, break, clanger, cock-up, error, fault, faux pas, floater, flub, fluff, fuckup, gaffe, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse, lapsus, mess-up, misstep, mistake, oopsy, screwup, slip, slip-up, slipup, stumble, thinko, wrength, solecism, erroneity

(informal)A person who makes many mistakes.

Đồng nghĩa: alcatote, auf, botcher, bumbler, bungler, blunderer, blunderhead, butterfingers, chucklehead, clodhopper, dauber, duffer, dumbshit, fuckup, fumblefingers, fumbler, galoot, gaum, gawk, gobaloon, goon, gype, trapes, klutz, lomperd, looby, lubber, lummox, lumpkin, maladroit, mess-up, messup, muff, oaf, palooka, peabrain, pisher, sad sack, schlemiel, schmuck, screwup, shit bird, slangrill, spaz, stumblebum, turkey, weapon, yutz