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figuratively
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Present participle for to botch or mangle
Present participle for to make something more complex
Present participle for to pronounce (a word) incorrectly
Present participle for to ruin or spoil completely
Present participle for to scatter about in a messy way
Present participle for to cause disarray or disorganization in the order of
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figuratively
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Present participle for to botch or mangle
botching
bungling
muffing
fluffing
fumbling
spoiling
ruining
mishandling
mismanaging
marring
wrecking
bodging
misgoverning
misdirecting
misconducting
messing up
fouling up
screwing up
mucking up
making a hash of
ballsing up
making a muck of
making a Horlicks of
doing something badly
botching up
making a dog's dinner of
managing badly
flubbing
lousing up
blowing
goofing up
mangling
butchering
bobbling
foozling
bumbling
boggling
dubbing
booting
murdering
bollixing up
blundering
erring
making a nonsense of
muddling
stumbling
making a pig's ear of
goofing
destroying
damaging
miscalculating
bollixing
boobing
tripping
dropping the ball
slipping up
maladministering
gumming up
failing
confusing
mutilating
stuffing up
misruling
messing
fudging
impairing
despoiling
jumbling
mixing up
defiling
tripping up
blowing it
distorting
tarnishing
getting wrong
making a botch of
snafuing
floundering
confounding
hashing
vitiating
compromising
overlooking
defacing
missing
making a mistake
harming
disfiguring
muddling up
misjudging
delivering badly
perverting
prostituting
misemploying
misusing
mishitting
slipping
choking
making hash of
balling up
losing
wasting
throwing away
squandering
miscarrying
pulling a boner
mending
misapplying
misconstruing
falling down
miscomputing
doing clumsily
making a blunder
getting things wrong
boo-booing
blotting your copybook
nodding
making a bloomer
going wrong
getting it wrong
putting your foot in it
making a boo-boo
going astray
dropping a brick
getting the wrong end of the stick
misapprehending
mistaking
endamaging
crossing up
blemishing
breaking
wrenching
flawing
disfeaturing
twisting
maiming
crabbing
hurting
crippling
dropping a clanger
making an error
fouling
bollocksing up
throwing
scuppering
snarling
making mistake
making a slip
faltering
making a faux pas
falling on one's face
lapsing
screwing the pooch
making a false move
miscuing
miscueing
horking
tumbling
borking
jacking up
muffing something up
making a howler
erroring
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“But when intellectuals decide to improve the world they inevitably
make a mess of
it.”
Verb
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Present participle for to make something more complex
confusing
complicating
convoluting
muddling
obfuscating
confounding
garbling
obscuring
perplexing
befuddling
clouding
discombobulating
jumbling
muddying
blurring
distorting
embroiling
ravelling
UK
raveling
US
beclouding
befogging
disorienting
entangling
tangling
twisting
confuscating
making complex
making difficult
making more difficult
making unclear
misinforming
misleading
obnubilating
rendering uncertain
darkening
leading astray
muddying up
muddying the waters
Verb
▲
Present participle for to pronounce (a word) incorrectly
mispronouncing
distorting
mangling
misstating
messing up
saying wrong
stumbling through
Verb
▲
Present participle for to ruin or spoil completely
wrecking
ruining
spoiling
undoing
shattering
devastating
disrupting
ending
marring
blighting
crushing
dashing
destroying
frustrating
preventing
quashing
quelling
scotching
demolishing
sabotaging
banjaxing
dishing
nixing
queering
scuppering
stymieing
blowing
cruelling
doing in
euchring
bringing to an end
fouling up
lousing up
messing up
putting an end to
putting a stop to
screwing up
playing havoc with
putting paid to
bringing to naught
making a hash of
blowing a hole in
putting the kibosh on
putting the lid on
throwing a spanner in the works
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
smashing
injuring
impairing
trashing
breaking
doing for
torpedoing
annihilating
damaging
disfiguring
ravaging
desecrating
despoiling
vitiating
desolating
upsetting
decimating
harming
mucking up
ballsing up
bringing down
crippling
wreaking havoc on
defacing
totaling
totalling
scarring
defiling
blasting
neutralizing
US
razing
overthrowing
wracking
defeating
botching
poisoning
mullering
neutralising
UK
ruinating
pulverizing
US
nuking
pulverising
UK
cancelling out
canceling out
reducing to nothing
rendering ineffective
bringing to ruin
laying in ruins
tainting
hurting
compromising
staining
blemishing
afflicting
nullifying
pillaging
flawing
decaying
plundering
sacking
endamaging
thwarting
depredating
crabbing
bloodying
spoliating
foiling
vaporizing
US
debasing
wasting
undermining
flattening
busting
sinking
putting a damper on
messing
toppling
glitching up
ravishing
creaming
mangling
dilapidating
overwhelming
disfeaturing
hindering
negating
levelling
UK
leveling
US
overturning
bodging
extinguishing
scourging
reducing
subverting
prejudicing
blotting
vaporising
UK
mutilating
maiming
depleting
squashing
hampering
obliterating
obstructing
squelching
eradicating
unbuilding
crossing up
crimping
skinning
cramping
impoverishing
crazing
tearing down
laying waste to
cooking someone's goose
upsetting the applecart
rubbing out
pulling down
knocking down
wiping out
taking apart
making useless
bringing to nothing
cleaning out
wreaking havoc upon
laying waste
leaving desolate
reducing to rubble
leaving in ruins
making of no use or value
putting at risk
working against
raining on someone's parade
tarnishing
corrupting
polluting
sullying
contaminating
dirtying
soiling
fouling
infecting
befouling
degrading
besmirching
adulterating
weakening
deteriorating
perverting
vandalizing
US
depraving
smirching
touching
darkening
warping
vandalising
UK
deforming
withering
corroding
cheapening
alloying
debauching
distorting
rotting
blackening
uglifying
disabling
gutting
lessening
festering
profaning
jeopardizing
US
scratching
disintegrating
wounding
violating
roughing up
shaking up
clouding
jeopardising
UK
sapping
wearing away
discoloring
US
discolouring
UK
diminishing
bruising
decomposing
bastardizing
US
putrefying
debilitating
impeding
abasing
demeaning
smearing
perishing
threatening
worsening
tweaking
dinging
shriveling
US
shrivelling
UK
moldering
US
enfeebling
enervating
molding
US
destabilizing
US
muddying
disgracing
invalidating
cankering
mouldering
UK
cracking
degenerating
overshadowing
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
radioactivating
curdling
denting
knocking
dismantling
battering
spreading to
running through
turning
tarring
scorching
bastardising
UK
making impure
mortifying
spreading among
making unattractive
sphacelating
making filthy
mildewing
smashing up
necrotizing
making ugly
doing damage to
destabilising
UK
breaking up
causing detriment to
moulding
UK
wreaking havoc with
going off
putting out of action
putting out of commission
growing moldy
breaking down
going bad
diluting
plaguing
blitzing
endangering
finishing
imperilling
UK
imperiling
US
depreciating
lowering
disfashioning
crumbling
bending
contorting
affecting
detracting
misshaping
prostituting
incapacitating
devitalizing
depressing
tumbling
destructing
demoralizing
US
bringing about the downfall of
shocking
inconveniencing
troubling
putting the skids under
overcoming
impacting
doctoring
spiking
sealing the doom of
striking
taking out
detracting from
interfering with
souring
colouring
UK
coloring
US
demoralising
UK
begriming
influencing
perturbing
suppurating
chastening
felling
chastising
smiting
writing off
sickening
stigmatizing
US
doing harm to
shriveling up
becoming contaminated
prevailing
occurring
watering down
branding
discrediting
costing
causing the loss of
resulting in damage to
resulting in harm to
leading to the end of
causing the sacrifice of
throwing a monkey wrench into
checking
shaming
baulking
UK
impinging
baffling
besmearing
splashing
prevailing over
impinging upon
impacting on
circumventing
spattering
distaining
bemiring
gauming
smudging
daubing
miring
mucking
griming
devaluing
striking at
striking down
balking
US
littering
blunting
abusing
scathing
tearing
wronging
splitting
rusting
burning
maltreating
gnawing
lacerating
taking hold of
attacking
exploding
toxifying
infesting
disappointing
stigmatising
UK
stabbing
bleaching
fading
decreasing
having an effect on
exerting influence on
having an impact on
confounding
spotting
bursting
popping
tampering with
banging up
bilking
devaluating
casting a slur
unfitting
disqualifying
rattling
casting gloom over
driving a nail into the coffin of
delivering a blow to
playing merry hell with
dragging through the mud
making dirty
blotting your copybook
giving a bad name
losing strength
blowing up
dampening
casting a gloom upon
bringing a note of sadness to
chillin
chilling
wracking up
bringing to nought
diseasing
casting a pall over
enveloping in gloom
taking the fun out of
taking the pleasure out of
casting a shadow over
taking the enjoyment out of
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to scatter about in a messy way
littering
scattering
bestrewing
strewing
cluttering
mussing
besmirching
dirtying
showering
spreading
cluttering up
dropping litter
making untidy
messing up
making a shambles of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause disarray or disorganization in the order of
mussing
disordering
disorganizing
disarranging
confusing
disturbing
discomposing
jumbling
muddling
disheveling
dishevelling
upsetting
disrupting
disarraying
tousling
rumpling
deranging
shuffling
dislocating
scrambling
disjointing
hashing
tumbling
cluttering
ruffling
rummaging
tangling
messing up
mixing up
making untidy
putting out of place
throwing into disorder
unsettling
turning upside down
throwing into confusion
spoiling
interfering with
throwing into disarray
fouling up
lousing up
playing havoc with
discombobulating
snarling
mussing up
messing
causing confusion in
causing turmoil in
riffling
convulsing
muddying
mucking
complicating
agitating
botching
bungling
rattling
bollixing
psyching out
jumbling up
getting into a tangle
screwing up
mucking up
messing with
making a shambles of
throwing a spanner in the works
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
rearranging
interfering
throwing
rifling
meddling
distorting
tampering
shaking
stopping
scattering
breaking up
displacing
intruding on
cutting short
dirtying
muddying the waters
rattling one's cage
upsetting the applecart
playing hob with
playing the devil
turning topsy-turvy
bringing into disorder
misarranging
making disorderly
getting out of order
muffing
mixing
fouling
fumbling
snafuing
blundering
ravelling
UK
raveling
US
entangling
perturbing
perplexing
making dirty
stirring up
throwing off
making a hash of
snarling up
encumbering
causing mess
confounding
tossing
embroiling
unbalancing
putting out of order
destabilizing
US
discreating
wrecking
dispersing
derailing
changing
muddling up
destabilising
UK
reordering
throwing into chaos
making a mess
distempering
ruining
bothering
misaligning
misplacing
bringing into disarray
throwing into a state of disorganization
gumming up
discommoding
overturning
breaking down
mistaking
knocking off balance
strewing
intermixing
shifting
throwing out
reorganizing
US
disaligning
mingling
transposing
reorganising
UK
putting in disarray
throwing into uproar
turning
reversing
slopping
tilting
subverting
sloshing
shifting about
changing the order
breaking the deck
turning inside-out
inverting
convoluting
complexifying
obfuscating
obscuring
sophisticating
complexing
miring
thwarting
embarrassing
involving
twisting
bedeviling
US
embellishing
bedevilling
UK
elaborating
interweaving
making difficulties
rendering unintelligible
making more difficult
setting hurdles
making complicated
making complex
making difficult
making intricate
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