verb
- Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- Disturb the smoothness of.
- usage: "ruffle the surface of the water"
- Make a mess of or create disorder in.
- usage: "He messed up his room"
- synonyms: mess
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