MUCK UP Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

muck up

verb

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as in to fumble

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way I swear, she mucks up everything she tries

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Recent Examples of muck up Part of that journey was squaring Montoya’s goal of playing entertaining, attacking soccer with mucking up the game. —

Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024 Draymond Green, who has been terrific this season defensively, constantly mucked up the paint with rotations. —

Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024 This wouldn’t be the first time such a discrepancy mucks up the MCU. —

Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 July 2024 Stock market The stock market is off to its best start to a year since 1997 but a massive dockworkers strike underway in the US could muck up some of that progress, economists say. —

Alexandra Banner, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for muck up

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Now, contrast that to the recent experience of Ravens tight end Mark Andrews who, as every devoted local football fan will recall, both fumbled and dropped a crucial two-point conversion pass in a must-win playoff game against the Buffalo Bills.

— Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2025
Like Fuhrman, many were nervous about teachers fumbling over technology and classmates not paying attention.

— Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025