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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  mess up \mess up\, v. t.
     1. To make a mess[5] of; to confuse, disorder, or muddle; to
        muss; to jumble; to disturb.
        [PJC]
  
     2. To botch[3]; to bungle.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  mess 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, muck up, bungle, fluff,
             bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble,
             mishandle, louse up, foul up, fuck up]
       2: disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
          [syn: ruffle, ruffle up, rumple]
       3: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his
          room" [syn: mess]

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

  mess up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or
  muss.
     2 (lb en transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error
  or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
     3 (senseid en botch) (lb en transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform
  poorly on.
     4 (lb en intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something
  incorrectly; to perform poorly.
     5 (lb en transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted
  mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious
  behavior.
     6 (lb en transitive) To damage; injure.
     7 (lb en transitive slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
     8 (lb en transitive slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or
  confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

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

  mess up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or
  muss.
     2 (lb en transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error
  or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
     3 (senseid en botch) (lb en transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform
  poorly on.
     4 (lb en intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something
  incorrectly; to perform poorly.
     5 (lb en transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted
  mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious
  behavior.
     6 (lb en transitive) To damage; injure.
     7 (lb en transitive slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
     8 (lb en transitive slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or
  confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

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

  mess up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or
  muss.
     2 (lb en transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error
  or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
     3 (senseid en botch) (lb en transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform
  poorly on.
     4 (lb en intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something
  incorrectly; to perform poorly.
     5 (lb en transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted
  mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious
  behavior.
     6 (lb en transitive) To damage; injure.
     7 (lb en transitive slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
     8 (lb en transitive slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or
  confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

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

  mess up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or
  muss.
     2 (lb en transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error
  or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
     3 (senseid en botch) (lb en transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform
  poorly on.
     4 (lb en intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something
  incorrectly; to perform poorly.
     5 (lb en transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted
  mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious
  behavior.
     6 (lb en transitive) To damage; injure.
     7 (lb en transitive slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
     8 (lb en transitive slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or
  confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.

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

  mess up
     Engelska vb.
     stöka till

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

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/ 
  zašpinit

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/ 
  llanastru 

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

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/
  etw. durcheinanderwerfen 
     Synonyms: muddle up, confuse
  
   see: muddling up, messing up, confusing, muddled up, messed up, confused
  

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

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/
  schmutzig machen, beschmutzen 
     Synonym: mess
  
   see: messing up, messed up, messes up, messed up
  

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

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/
  verkorksen 
     Synonyms: make a mess, bugger up
  
   see: making a mess, messing up, buggering up, made a mess, messed up, buggered up
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/ 
  1. rikkoa, sekoittaa, särkeä
  to cause an error or problem in
  2. häiritä
  to cause to make unwanted mistakes
  3. loukata, vahingoittaa
  to damage; injure
  4. panna sekaisin, sekoittaa, sotkea
  to make a mess of
  5. epäonnistua
  to make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly
  6. antaa turpaan, pahoinpidellä
  to manhandle, beat up
  7. panna sekaisin, sekoittaa
  to throw into a state of mental disarray
  8. mokata, möhliä, sählätä, tumpeloida
  transitive: to botch, bungle

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/ 
  1. गड़बड़ी~करना
        "He messed up the whole program."

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/ 
  pakrikdyti, sujaukti, sumaišyti, (su)gadinti (reikalą ir pan.)

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  mess up /mˈɛs ˈʌp/ 
  stöka till
  to make a mess of

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

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "mess up":
     ball up, befoul, benasty, bitch, bitch up, blur, bobble, bollix,
     bollix up, bonehead into it, bugger, bugger up, clutter,
     complicate, confound, confuse, contaminate, cook, corrupt, damage,
     defile, deform, derange, disarrange, disarray, discompose,
     dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, distort, disturb,
     drop a brick, embrangle, entangle, flub, fog up, foul, foul up,
     goof, goof up, gum up, hash up, implicate, infect, involve, jumble,
     knot, litter, louse up, mar, mess, misarrange, mix up, muck,
     muck up, mucker, muddle, muff, muss, muss up, nasty, obfuscate,
     obscure, perplex, play hell with, play hob with, pollute, queer,
     ramify, ravel, ruffle, ruin, rummage, rumple, scatter, screw up,
     sink, snafu, snarl, snarl up, spoil, sully, taint, tangle, tarnish,
     tousle, unform, unsettle, unshape, upset
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     弄乱,弄糟;陷入困境

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