muck up

verb

mucked up; mucking up; mucks up

Synonyms of muck up next

transitive verb

: to make a mess of : bungle, spoil

Examples of muck up in a Sentence

I swear, she mucks up everything she tries.

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By comparing the gene trees to the species trees, the researchers estimated rates of horizontal gene transfer, gene loss and other evolutionary processes that could muck up the picture. —

Jonathan Lambert, Quanta Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 Part of that journey was squaring Montoya’s goal of playing entertaining, attacking soccer with mucking up the game. —

Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024 Draymond Green, who has been terrific this season defensively, constantly mucked up the paint with rotations. —

Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024 This wouldn’t be the first time such a discrepancy mucks up the MCU. —

Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for muck up