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To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess:

ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, mess up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil. (Informal) bollix up, muck up. (Slang) blow¹, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu. Idiom: make a muck of. See correct, help

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