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词汇 mess-up
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mess something up


phrasal verb with messverbuk /mes/ us /mes/
to make something dirty or untidy: 把…弄乱;把…弄脏
Who's messed up the bookshelf?谁把书架弄乱了?
The wind had messed up my hair.
They had come along and messed up her arrangement.
I've only just tidied this room and you've messed it up already.
Who has messed up my sewing box?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making things dirty & untidy
blacken
clutter
clutter something up
contaminate
dirty
foul
mess
mix someone/something up
muddle
muddle something up
muddy
muss
pollute
polluter
recontaminate
soil
stain
tarnish
the polluter pays principleidiom
throw something into disarray

mess (something) up


phrasal verb with messverbuk /mes/ us /mes/
informal
B2
to spoil or damage something, or to do something wrong or badly: 搞砸,弄糟
I messed up my chances of becoming a great singer.我觉得自己已把成为一名伟大歌手的机会毁掉了。
He says that his divorce has really messed his life up.他说离婚确实已让他的生活变得一团糟。
You really messed up this time.这次你的确把事情搞砸了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to spoil something
spoilDon't spoil the movie by telling me what happens!
ruinI put too much salt in the sauce and ruined it.
defaceMany of the library books had been defaced.
disfigureHer face was disfigured by the scar.
sourOur friendship soured after the argument, and we just drifted apart.
poisonThe long dispute has poisoned relations between the two countries.
He messed up his life with drugs.
The business was going really well until Peter messed it up.
Don't mess up your marriage by working every evening.
He has messed up his chance of a good education.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Failing and doing badly
abjectly
at-risk
backbencher
balls (something) up
be on your beam endsidiom
blow (someone/something) up
bomb
egg
flog
flog a dead horseidiom
flop
flub
flunk out
founder
mess
running on emptyidiom
sclerotic
screw
screw (something) up
sign someone's death warrant

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Damaging and spoiling

mess someone up


phrasal verb with messverbuk /mes/ us /mes/

(CAUSE PROBLEMS)


to cause someone to suffer emotional and mental problems: 使(某人)出现精神问题
Drugs can really mess you up.毒品真的会让你萎靡不振。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people sad, shocked and upset
aback
amiss
appal
be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom
bite
bum
gnaw
haunt
heartbreaker
heartbreakingly
hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
nerve
self-laceration
sensitivity
shake someone out of something
shake someone up
shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
shattering
tear
toxic

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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis

(INJURE)


USslang
to hit someone repeatedly so that they are badly injured殴打(某人)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hitting and beating
at-risk
bang away
bang someone up
basher
bashing
bunch
butt
duke
fetch
gut punch
hammer
head-butt
hell
mess
swing for someone
tan someone's hideidiom
tar
tonk
wallop
whop
mess-up
noun[ Cusually singular ]
mainly UKinformaluk /ˈmes.ʌp/ us /ˈmes.ʌp/
something that has been done badly: 乱七八糟,一塌糊塗
He made a real mess-up of the sales figures.他把销售数据搞得一团糟。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Failures
another/the final nail in the coffinidiom
bloodbath
brain freeze
breakdown
busted flush
car crash
false dawn
fiasco
flameout
flop
foul (something) up
hash
lemon
loser
parody
post-crash
pratfall
reversal
slim pickings
slush pile

mess (something) up | American Dictionary


mess (something) up


phrasal verb with mess

(MISTAKE)


to make a mistake or do something wrong:
I messed up – I'm sorry.
I really messed up on the second question on the test.
We had a chance to win the game and we messed it up.

mess something up


phrasal verb with mess

(DAMAGE)


to break, damage, or spoil something:
I messed up my ankle playing soccer.
There are always a couple of kids who come to a party and try to mess things up.

Examples of mess something up


mess something up
It is probably a mess-up or a mistake.
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That is a complete mess-up on the part of the management.
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There can have been no greater mess-up in our country's diplomatic relations in peacetime.
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It is a ramping, raging mess-up of climates and nationalities and faiths and races.
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That is a typical example of a total mess-up.
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He said that this would be regarded as a classical example of a mess-up.
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We now have an outside commission, whoever they are, and all we read about is bungle and a complete mess-up.
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That was a complete mess-up.
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And where are we getting with this mess-up of a relationship between central and local government which up to the past few years has been a pretty good one?
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