Clear up and Muck up

Opposite meaning terms

Clear up verb - To make plain or understandable.

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Muck up is an antonym for clear up.

Muck up verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.

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Clear up is an antonym for muck up in topics: upset, knot, confuse, disappoint, make a mess of.

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