· 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"
Synonym(s): botch, bodge, 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
Hypernym(s): fail, go_wrong, miscarry
· disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
Synonym(s): ruffle, ruffle_up, rumple
Hypernym(s): disarrange
· make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
Synonym(s): mess
Hypernym(s): disorder, disarray