All bollix synonyms

verb bollix

• botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• subvert — to overthrow (something established or existing).
• cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
• vandalize — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
• disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
• 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.
• mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
• muff — sheet glass made from a blown cylinder (muff) that is split and flattened.
• fumble — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
• mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
• bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
• bobble — A bobble is a small ball of material, usually made of wool, which is used for decorating clothes.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
• stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
• nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• disable — make not work
• blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
• mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
• mess — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• boot — Boots are shoes that cover your whole foot and the lower part of your leg.
• muddle — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
• patch — Alexander McCarrell [muh-kar-uh l] /məˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1945, U.S. World War II general.
• flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
• distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
• spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
• misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.