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muck up
Overview of verb muck-up
The verb muck up has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) botch, bodge, 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")
2. mire, muck, mud, muck up -- (soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden")
Antonyms of verb muck-up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb muck-up
2 senses of muck up
Sense 1
botch, bodge, 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
=> fail, go wrong, miscarry
Sense 2
mire, muck, mud, muck up
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb muck-up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb muck-up
2 senses of muck up
Sense 1
botch, bodge, 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
=> fail, go wrong, miscarry
Sense 2
mire, muck, mud, muck up
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
'Cause To' of verb muck-up
Derived Forms of verb muck-up
Domain of verb muck-up
Domain Terms of verb muck-up
Familiarity of verb muck-up
muck up used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb muck-up
2 senses of muck up
Sense 1
botch, bodge, 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
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
mire, muck, mud, muck up
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb muck-up
2 senses of muck up
Sense 1
botch, bodge, 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
> fail, go wrong, miscarry
=> take it on the chin
=> miss
=> overreach
=> botch, bodge, 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
=> strike out
=> fall
=> shipwreck
=> fall through, fall flat, founder, flop
Sense 2
mire, muck, mud, muck up
> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> foul
=> pollute, foul, contaminate
=> smear
=> slime
=> muddy, muddy up
=> splash
=> mire, muck, mud, muck up
=> crock
=> blemish, spot
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb muck-up
Sense 1
botch, bodge, 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
=> fail, go wrong, miscarry
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Sense 2
mire, muck, mud, muck up
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
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