Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud, mire
Definition: soil with mud, muck, or mire
Usage: The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
Similar words: soil, grime, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty
Definition: make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Usage: don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
Synonyms: flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, ball up, spoil, screw up, mishandle, muck up, muff, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle
Definition: 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
Similar words: fail, miscarry, go wrong
Definition: be unsuccessful
Usage: Where do today's public schools fail?; The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably