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muck up

verb

1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin (Freq. 1)

- I botched the dinner and we had to eat out

- the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

• Syn:

• Derivationally related forms:

• Hypernyms: ↑fail, ↑go wrong, ↑miscarry

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s

- Somebody ——s something

2. soil with mud, muck, or mire

- The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden

• Syn: ↑mire, ↑muck, ↑mud

• Derivationally related forms: ↑mud (for: ↑mud), ↑muck (for: ↑muck), ↑mire (for: ↑mire)

• Hypernyms: ↑dirty, ↑soil, ↑begrime, ↑grime, ↑colly, ↑bemire

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s something

- Somebody ——s somebody

- Something ——s somebody

- Something ——s something

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muck up [phrasal verb]

muck (something) up or muck up (something) chiefly Brit, informal

1 : to make (something) dirty

Take those dirty shoes off before you muck up the floor.

2 : to spoil or ruin (something) : to make mistakes in doing or making (something)

He mucked up [=messed up] the speech. = He mucked the speech up.

I mucked up my first attempt and had to try again.

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Main Entry: ↑muck

Useful english dictionary. 2012.