Local English word record

louse up

verb · 1 sense

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

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Examples

  • I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
  • the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

Word relationships

Synonyms

botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up

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Princeton WordNet 3.0