Synonyms for ball up
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Verb
1. Mess up — to ruin or botch
mess up, upset, blow, foul up, spoil, disturb, fumble, fluff, muck up informal, bumble, louse up informal, bungle, botch, mishandle, bollix, bolix US, muff, bobble, botch up informal, flub US AU NZ, bodge, queer slang dated, bugger up vulgar informal UK AU NZ
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Definitions
- v. 1
To ruin or botch.
The best man balled up his speech, stammering and tripping over his words.
Example sentences
- upset Tom was too upset to talk about what had happened.
- blow The loss of her husband was a great blow for Mary.
By length
- 4 letters
- blow1, muff1, flub
- 5 letters
- upset2, spoil1, queer1, fluff1, botch1, bodge, bolix
- 6 letters
- fumble2, bumble2, bobble2, bungle2, bollix
- 7 letters
- disturb2
- 9 letters
- mishandle3
- 11 letters
- agglomerate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (upset2 = 2 syllables).