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单词 lousing up
释义

louse up

verb

loused up; lousing up; louses up

transitive verb

: foul up, snarl

intransitive verb

: to make a mess

Synonyms

  • blunder
  • boob [British]
  • err
  • flub
  • fluff
  • foul up
  • fumble
  • goof (up)
  • mess (up)
  • screw up
  • slip up
  • stumble
  • trip
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Example Sentences

everything is riding on this project, so we can't afford to louse up I loused up the wallpapering job in the bedroom—the seams show too much.

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

lousing up

verb

present participle of louse up
1
as in slipping up
to make a mistake everything is riding on this project, so we can't afford to louse up

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • slipping up
  • screwing up
  • fumbling
  • fouling up
  • stumbling
  • tripping
  • dropping the ball
  • laying an egg
  • goofing (up)
  • blundering
  • erring
  • nodding
  • fluffing
  • misunderstanding
  • messing (up)
  • flubbing
  • boobing
  • mistaking
  • foozling
  • misdeeming
  • murdering
  • bungling
  • botching
  • mangling
  • muffing
  • butchering
  • misgaging
  • misjudging
  • misconceiving
  • mishandling
  • misgauging
  • bobbling
  • miscuing
  • misconstruing
  • miscounting
  • miscalculating
  • misinterpreting
2
as in fumbling
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way I loused up the wallpapering job in the bedroom—the seams show too much

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • fumbling
  • mucking up
  • screwing up
  • fouling up
  • blowing
  • buggering (up)
  • bollixing (up)
  • dubbing
  • murdering
  • goofing (up)
  • ruining
  • booting
  • boggling
  • bungling
  • spoiling
  • botching
  • destroying
  • foozling
  • mangling
  • butchering
  • muffing
  • messing (up)
  • fluffing
  • damaging
  • bobbling
  • flubbing
  • bumbling
  • gumming (up)
  • marring
  • injuring
  • flawing
  • wrecking
  • impairing
  • hurting
  • blundering
  • muddling
  • mutilating
  • piffling
  • harming
  • blighting
  • blemishing
  • vitiating
  • mismanaging
  • mishandling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • improving
  • enhancing
  • helping
  • reforming
  • refining
  • remedying
  • rectifying
  • ameliorating
  • meliorating
  • repairing
  • fixing
  • bettering
  • patching
  • renovating
  • reconditioning
  • revamping
  • doctoring
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