English > ball up: 1 sense > verb 1, social| Meaning | make a mess of, destroy or ruin. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up |
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| Broader | fail, go wrong, miscarry | Be unsuccessful |
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| Spanish | apelotonar, arruinar, cagarla, chapucear, estropear, joderla, pifiar |
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| Catalan | arruïnar, cagar-la, esguerrar, espatllar, espifiar, fer barroerament, fotre |
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| Nouns | ballup | something badly botched or muddled |
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