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Mess up   /mɛs əp/   Listen
verb
mess up  v. t.  
1.
To make a mess (5) of; to confuse, disorder, or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.
2.
To botch (3); to bungle.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mess up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thomas talk dat biggity talk to me, not to my wife. Maybe you kin whip her, but if you can't whip me too, don't bring de mess up. ...
— De Turkey and De Law - A Comedy in Three Acts • Zora Neale Hurston
... his low, easy way. "I'm with you, Mr. Lee. We'll make a thorough job while we're at it and mess up these other tracks. After that we'll follow the ditch up and ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... said Hilary, whose civic morality flew much lower than this. "Nonsense! And stir the whole filthy mess up in the courts? I mean, make use of this fellow to find him, and enable us to find out just how much money he has left, and how much we have got to supply, in order to make ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... correspondence in the library," went on Saunders. "Most of it I've seen to. There are a few private letters I haven't opened. There's also a box with a rat, or something, inside it that came by the evening post. Very likely it's the six-toed albino. I didn't look, because I didn't want to mess up my things but I should gather from the way it's jumping about ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various


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