muck up

• Фразовый глагол, означающий испортить, разрушить или привести что-либо в беспорядок, или стать причиной неудачи.

A phrasal verb meaning to spoil, ruin, or make a mess of something, or to cause something to fail.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

1. Make a mess or spoilinformalbritish

   To make something dirty, messy, or to ruin it.

   Испортить или испачкать

   • He mucked up the kitchen while trying to cook.
   • Don't muck up your new shoes in the mud.
   • She mucked up the whole plan by arriving late.

   Synonymsbefoulbotchbungledirtyfoul upmess upruinscrew upspoilsully

   Antonymscleanimproveneatenperfecttidy

2. Make a mistakeinformalbritish

   To fail at something or do it incorrectly.

   Наделать ошибок

   • I mucked up the exam because I didn't study enough.
   • He mucked up his lines during the play.
   • They mucked up the project by ignoring the instructions.

   Synonymsblunderbotchbungleerrflubfoul upgoofmess upscrew up

   Antonymsexcelsucceed

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