· 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, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix_up, bollocks, bollocks_up, bobble, mishandle, louse_up, foul_up, mess_up, fuck_up
Hypernym(s): fail, go_wrong, miscarry
· soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
Hypernym(s): dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire