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mess up
Overview of noun mess-up
The noun mess-up has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up -- (something badly botched or muddled)
Overview of verb mess-up
The verb mess up has 3 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. ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up -- (disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water")
3. mess, mess up -- (make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mess-up
1 sense of mess-up
Sense 1
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
=> mistake, error, fault
=> nonaccomplishment, nonachievement
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun mess-up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mess-up
1 sense of mess-up
Sense 1
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
=> mistake, error, fault
Antonyms of noun mess-up
Member Holonyms of noun mess-up
Substance Holonyms of noun mess-up
Part Holonyms of noun mess-up
Member Meronyms of noun mess-up
Substance Meronyms of noun mess-up
Part Meronyms of noun mess-up
Meronyms of noun mess-up
Holonyms of noun mess-up
Attributes of noun mess-up
Derived Forms of noun mess-up
1 sense of mess-up
Sense 1
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
RELATED TO>(verb) mess up#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
Domain of noun mess-up
1 sense of mess-up
Sense 1
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
REGION>(noun) United Kingdom#1, UK#1, U.K.#1, Great Britain#1, GB#4, Britain#1, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland#1
Domain Terms of noun mess-up
Familiarity of noun mess-up
mess-up used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun mess-up
1 sense of mess-up
Sense 1
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
> mistake, error, fault
=> blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
=> confusion, mix-up
=> incursion
=> miscalculation, misreckoning, misestimation
=> distortion
=> slip, slip-up, miscue, parapraxis
=> offside
=> oversight, lapse
=> omission, skip
=> blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
=> ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
=> stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility
=> revoke, renege
Meronyms of noun mess-up
1 sense of mess-up
Holonyms of noun mess-up
Grep of noun mess-up
mess-up
Antonyms of verb mess-up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb mess-up
3 senses of mess 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
ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up
=> disarrange
=> move, displace
Sense 3
mess, mess up
=> disorder, disarray
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb mess-up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb mess-up
3 senses of mess 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
ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up
=> disarrange
Sense 3
mess, mess up
=> disorder, disarray
'Cause To' of verb mess-up
Derived Forms of verb mess-up
1 of 3 senses of mess 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
RELATED TO>(noun) mess-up#1
=> ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
Domain of verb mess-up
Domain Terms of verb mess-up
Familiarity of verb mess-up
mess up used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb mess-up
3 senses of mess 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
ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
mess, mess up
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb mess-up
3 senses of mess 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
ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up
> disarrange
=> ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up
=> muss, tussle
=> tousle, dishevel, tangle
Sense 3
mess, mess up
> disorder, disarray
=> mess, mess up
=> perturb, derange, throw out of kilter
=> disarrange
=> scramble, jumble, throw together
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb mess-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
ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up
=> disarrange
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Sense 3
mess, mess up
=> disorder, disarray
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