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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  ball up
       v : 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,
            spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix
           up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse
           up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  ball up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To crush into a ball shape.
     2 (lb en ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
     3 (lb en intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
     4 (lb en slang transitive) To ruin or botch.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  ball up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To crush into a ball shape.
     2 (lb en ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
     3 (lb en intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
     4 (lb en slang transitive) To ruin or botch.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  ball up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To crush into a ball shape.
     2 (lb en ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
     3 (lb en intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
     4 (lb en slang transitive) To ruin or botch.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  ball up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To crush into a ball shape.
     2 (lb en ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
     3 (lb en intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
     4 (lb en slang transitive) To ruin or botch.

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ball up /bˈɔːl ˈʌp/
  poplést

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ball up /bˈɔːl ˈʌp/
  zvrtat

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  ball up /bˈɔːl ˈʌp/
  sich zusammenrollen, sich einrollen 
     Synonym: curl up
  
   see: balling up, curling up, balled up, curled up
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "ball up":
     addle, addle the wits, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder,
     bollix, bollix up, bother, bug, bugger, bugger up, cloud,
     complicate, confound, confuse, cook, daze, dazzle, discombobulate,
     discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient,
     distract, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, flummox, flurry,
     fluster, flutter, fog, foul up, fuddle, fumble, fuss, garble,
     gum up, hash up, implicate, involve, jumble, knot, louse up, maze,
     mess up, mist, mix up, moider, muck up, muddle, perplex, perturb,
     pi, play hell with, play hob with, pother, put out, queer,
     raise hell, ramify, rattle, ravel, riffle, ruffle, scramble,
     screw up, shuffle, sink, snafu, snarl, snarl up, tangle,
     throw into confusion, throw off, tumble, unsettle, upset
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     糊涂,搞不清楚;把事情弄糟,使糊涂

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