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[ verb ] make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Examples "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out" "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" Used in print (Winfred Van Atta, Shock Treatment....)`` You are young , intelligent , have a whole lifetime before you to make something worth while of yourself , but you mess it up with whiskey , indifference , self-destructive attitudes . |
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[ verb ] disturb the smoothness of
Examples "ruffle the surface of the water" Related terms |
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