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Define the word muck up

muck up
     v 1: 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" [syn: botch,
           bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub,
           screw up, ball up, spoil, bungle, fluff, bollix,
           bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle,
           louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
     2: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt
        while playing ball in the garden" [syn: mire, muck, mud]

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "muck up":
   ball up, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, bloomer, blooper, blow,
   bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo,
   boob stunt, boot, bugger, bugger up, complicate, confound, confuse,
   cook, dirt, dirty, dirty up, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff,
   dumb trick, dust, embrangle, entangle, fluff, fool mistake, foozle,
   foul up, foul-up, fumble, garble, goof, grime, gum up, hash up,
   howler, implicate, involve, jumble, knot, louse up, louse-up,
   mess up, mire, mix up, muck, muddle, muddy, perplex, pi,
   play hell with, play hob with, pratfall, pull a boner, queer,
   ramify, ravel, riffle, scramble, screamer, screw up, screw-up,
   shuffle, sink, slime, smoke, snafu, snarl, snarl up, soot, tangle,
   tumble