Transcription
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- [muhk uhp]
- /mʌk ʌp/
- /mʌk ʌp/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [muhk uhp]
- /mʌk ʌp/
Definitions of muck up words
- noun muck up a bungled or disordered situation; foul-up. 1
- verb with object muck up to manure. 1
- verb with object muck up to make dirty; soil. 1
- verb with object muck up to remove muck from (sometimes followed by out). 1
- verb with object muck up Informal. to ruin; bungle (often followed by up). to put into a state of complete confusion (often followed by up). 1
- transitivephrasal verb muck up make dirty 1
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Origin of muck up
First appearance:
before 1200 One of the 9% oldest English words
1200-50; Middle English muc, muk < Old Norse myki cow dung
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Parts of speech for Muck up
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
muck up popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
muck up usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for muck up
verb muck up
- bumble — to speak or do in a clumsy, muddled, or inefficient way
- screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- flub — a blunder.
- misjudge — Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
Antonyms for muck up
verb muck up
- create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- accomplish — If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.
- achieve — If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- succeed — to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
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Matching words
- Words starting with m
- Words starting with mu
- Words starting with muc
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