| VERB | social | fuck up, 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 | make a mess of, destroy or ruin |
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| Meaning | make a mess of, destroy or ruin. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | 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 | |
| Broader | fail, go wrong, miscarry | Be unsuccessful |
| Catalan | arruïnar, fotre | |
| Spanish | arruinar | |
| Nouns | fuckup | an embarrassing mistake |