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| NOUN: | A ruinous state of disorder: foul-up, mess, muddle, shambles. Informal : hash. Slang : screwup, snafu. See CORRECT, ORDER. | | VERB: | To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess: ball up, blunder, boggle, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mess up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil. Informal : bollix up, muck up. Slang : blow1, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu. Idioms: make a muck of. See CORRECT, HELP.
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