messing (up)
verb
1
as in fumbling
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way messed up the drawing and had to start over Synonyms & Similar Words
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- fumbling
- mucking up
- screwing up
- blowing
- fouling up
- buggering (up)
- lousing up
- bollixing (up)
- goofing (up)
- dubbing
- murdering
- ruining
- boggling
- bungling
- booting
- foozling
- spoiling
- botching
- destroying
- butchering
- mangling
- muffing
- fluffing
- flubbing
- damaging
- gumming (up)
- bumbling
- bobbling
- flawing
- marring
- wrecking
- injuring
- blundering
- hurting
- impairing
- muddling
- piffling
- mutilating
- harming
- blighting
- blemishing
- vitiating
- mismanaging
- mishandling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- improving
- helping
- enhancing
- reforming
- remedying
- ameliorating
- refining
- rectifying
- meliorating
- repairing
- fixing
- bettering
- reconditioning
- patching
- renovating
- revamping
- doctoring
2
as in disrupting
to undo the proper order or arrangement of a nap had messed up her hair and she looked a sight Synonyms & Similar Words
- disrupting
- confusing
- shuffling
- disturbing
- mixing (up)
- discomposing
- disarraying
- upsetting
- scrambling
- dishevelling
- disarranging
- disheveling
- jumbling
- disorganizing
- disordering
- tousling
- muddling
- mussing
- hashing
- disjointing
- dislocating
- tumbling
- deranging
- snarling
- stirring (up)
- rumpling
- tangling
- unsettling
- embroiling
- perturbing
- cluttering
- entangling
- agitating
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- straightening (up)
- lining up
- ranging
- organizing
- regulating
- drawing up
- ordering
- disposing
- arranging
- tidying
- lining
- marshalling
- marshaling
- aligning
- queueing
- arraying
- making up
- classifying
- alining
- adjusting
- fixing
- codifying
- systematizing
- sprucing (up)
- queuing
- grooming
- methodizing
- systemizing
- unscrambling
3
as in stumbling
to make a mistake if anyone messes up even once while we're recording, we have to start all over again Synonyms & Similar Words
- fumbling
- stumbling
- slipping up
- tripping
- screwing up
- fouling up
- lousing up
- goofing (up)
- dropping the ball
- blundering
- laying an egg
- erring
- nodding
- fluffing
- misunderstanding
- flubbing
- mistaking
- boobing
- foozling
- misdeeming
- bungling
- murdering
- botching
- misconceiving
- misjudging
- mangling
- muffing
- butchering
- mishandling
- misgauging
- miscuing
- miscounting
- miscalculating
- misconstruing
- bobbling
- misgaging
- misinterpreting
4
as in licking
to strike repeatedly "If I catch you looking at my girlfriend, I'm going to mess you up!" he threatened Synonyms & Similar Words
- licking
- pounding
- hiding
- lashing
- working over
- punching out
- doing
- whipping
- beating
- beating up on
- slapping
- knocking
- pelting
- battering
- attacking
- roughing (up)
- hitting
- punching
- spanking
- bunging up
- thumping
- slamming
- smashing
- assaulting
- batting
- chopping
- mauling
- bashing
- pummeling
- laying on
- threshing
- whopping
- raiding
- switching
- tanning
- pommelling
- clubbing
- hammering
- drubbing
- buffeting
- bludgeoning
- paddling
- basting
- thrashing
- smacking
- currying
- lathering
- whaling
- boxing
- flogging
- pommeling
- fibbing
- slating
- belaboring
- lamming
- whacking
- storming
- lambasting
- slogging
- belting
- lacing
- pummelling
- wounding
- walloping
- swiping
- whupping
- whapping
- tromping
- jumping (on)
- descending (on or upon)
- birching
- pouncing (on or upon)
- cracking
- rushing
- pasting
- swatting
- thwacking
- strapping
- besetting
- assailing
- fustigating
- clobbering
- cuffing
- socking
- cowhiding
- whamming
- busting
- scourging
- caning
- rawhiding
- blackjacking
- cudgelling
- cudgeling
- clouting
- goring
- flagellating
- lacerating
- whomping
- maiming
- mutilating
- leathering
- mangling
- horsewhipping
- pistol-whipping