muck up
• do something badly or ineptly; mishandle something.
• "the trust are putting staff on gardening leave because they've mucked up the redundancy process"
Similar:
make a mess of,
mess up,
botch,
bungle,
spoil,
ruin,
wreck,
mishandle,
mismanage,
make a hash of,
muff,
fluff,
foul up,
screw up,
louse up,
bitch up,
blow,
foozle,
make a muck of,
make a pig's ear of,
cock up,
make a Horlicks of,
flub,
goof up,
fuck up,
balls up,
bugger up,
• behave badly; mess around.
• "boys are more likely to muck up at what they see as poor teaching"
muck-up
noun
• something done badly or ineptly.
• "the first procedure was a total muck-up"
